what remains When the color fades
"In this series of photographs, I document a return to the house of my childhood and young-adult life. With these images, old and new, I investigate my ties to my family home and illustrate what my present self feels like in a past space that whispers reminders of what was and what could have been.
Blurred memories linger in the hollowed-out, relic-filled spaces left behind, leading to a dissonance between revisiting the past to understand or letting go of it to move forward.
Various questions arise in this exploration of home: Is remembrance necessary for closure? Can one continue to bloom in a space that they have outgrown? Within these walls, there is connection and disconnection, comfort and discomfort, light and darkness, and a fear that I won't know what I have until it's gone. Leaning into the opposing forces, I depict what it feel like to return to a space stripped of its color and navigate the tension that comes from existing in a space with an unspoken past."
Year of Realization — 2025