Traces
Traces
Traces brings together three early bodies of work that examine the photograph as a fragile vessel for memory and human presence.
In one series, layers of hot beeswax are painted over magazine portraits and peeled away after cooling, lifting only delicate fragments of the printed image. As the wax ages, the faces continue to fade and transform, allowing time itself to become part of the work.
In another, found family photographs are cut apart and reassembled, creating impossible relationships between strangers. Familiar images become uncertain narratives, where identity is reconstructed through absence as much as presence.
The installation The Remaining extends this investigation further. Small found photographs are cut by hand, leaving only the silhouettes of anonymous figures pinned directly to the wall. Individual identities dissolve until only the simplest trace of a human presence remains. Together, the dispersed figures form a quiet community—an archive of lives remembered not through portraiture, but through absence.
Together, these works mark the beginning of an ongoing exploration of memory, fragmentation, and the traces that remain after people, places, and histories begin to disappear.