Afterimages
2025 - Ongoing
This body of work is grounded in a reflection on how photography shapes the way we perceive, remember, and long. By flattening lived experience into a single image, it aestheticizes and stabilizes what was once fluid, contributing to a collective tendency to romanticize the past and elsewhere. Most of the time, we remember in the form of images. When photographs of βa comforting elsewhereβ are projected onto my current living space and routine, they lose their material permanence, becoming ephemeral and unstable. Yet simultaneously, they take on an emotional intensity as these βother times and placesβ drift into the present. This temporal overlap mimics the act of remembering: the point where a glimpse slips into reverie, and the external world is eclipsed by the images surfacing from within.