memory is unreliable. we like to think of it as an archive, somewhere we can return to and retrieve a moment exactly as it happened. but memories don’t stay still. details disappear. faces blur. emotions become stronger than facts. sometimes all that remains of a particular time is a colour, a place, a feeling, or the strange certainty that for a moment, we are there again. fragments of memories explores that space between remembering and forgetting.
the series combines photographic elements with my abstract paintings. recognizable figures emerge from layers of watercolor, only to disappear into them again. edges dissolve, images overlap, and parts of the original become impossible to separate from what surrounds them. that tension is important to me. a photograph appears to preserve a moment exactly as it was. memory doesn’t. it alters, softens and fragments it. over time, what happened and what we remember can become almost impossible to pull apart.
the figures in these works often feel caught somewhere between presence and absence. they are still there, but no longer entirely reachable. much like the people we once knew, the places we once lived, and the earlier versions of ourselves that still surface unexpectedly years later. nothing really disappears. it simply becomes another layer of the person we are becoming.
