Fragmented Memories
Fragmented Memories treats a photograph as an opening rather than a conclusion. Each image is made in a single in-camera exposure- no digital layering, no multiple exposures, based on scenes I encounter in the real world, encapsulating scratched glass, translucent screens, and reflective surfaces.
The layering within each photograph is intentional. Our brains rush to grasp the “gist” of a scene, discarding what seems secondary, just focusing on a few details. These images resist that instinct. Reflections and veils slow the viewer’s perception.. In that way, the work becomes a practice in seeing more completely. The images suggest that more than one truth can exist in the same moment.
Just as our brain filters what we see, memory edits what we keep. Memories rarely arrive whole; they come fractured, partial, unresolved. Rather than narrate directly, each photograph becomes a space where conflicting states coexist side by side- comfort and unease, clarity and uncertainty, protection and longing.
Meaning isn’t delivered instantly- it builds as you stay with the picture. Making the work requires the same kind of attention: instead of locking onto one or two details, while photographing, I hold the whole visual field at once.
Sustained, mindful attention is both the method and the metaphor of Fragmented Memories.
