Reminiscences is a bridge between who we were and who we have become. It is an attempt to capture and understand the continuity of life through images — emotional, subtle, filled with light and shadow. I immerse myself in an intimate space of memory — both conscious and unconscious, personal and universal. I weave a story about the fragility of human existence and the traces left by emotions, relationships, and experiences etched into the fabric of time.
Memories — fleeting yet persistent — return to our consciousness in the most unexpected moments. I return to family photographs, to landscapes of memories — to places that have faded away, such as the first family home, now reduced to ruins. Through collage, I tell a story that is both personal and universal. Looking at old photographs, we perceive what once escaped our notice. The past, though seemingly distant, permeates the present — alive in scents, sounds, and details captured in the image. In its psychological sense, reminiscence describes the phenomenon where older people more vividly recall memories from their youth, especially from between the ages of 10 and 30. This project resonates with that phenomenon, showing how memory operates beyond linear time — selectively, sensually, intuitively.The project is composed of photographs and family objects, each carrying a profound emotional charge and evoking memories:
– remains of the first family home — now ruins, rubble, earth, and glass,– a gravy boat from 1970 — a remembrance of family dinners,
– my mother’s First Communion keepsake from 1955.These rituals — shared meals, family celebrations, daily gestures — permeate through time.
The women of one lineage — my grandmother, my mother, myself, and my daughter — create a continuity of experience, where only the length of the dress changes, but the essence of connection endures.
Childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age. A dialogue between times. Enduring presence.
