evanescent tales

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Evanescent Tales is a series of pigment prints on aluminum that explores the passage of time through the material decay of photographs. By prioritizing a photograph’s physical scars—its cracks, tears, and scratches—over its original subject matter, these works reframe structural damage as the primary narrative. The series magnifies these delicate, overlooked fragments to a monumental scale, transforming the evidence of human handling and physical deterioration into the art itself.
Through this process of reframing and digital doubling, the works look backward through the vintage imagery carried on their surfaces, while remaining anchored in the present through their high-tech, digitally derived fabrication. This stark contrast highlights the unstable role of the photograph as a memory object in our screen-saturated culture. Ultimately, Evanescent Tales investigates what happens when images are re-contextualized across time, material, and form—exposing the fragility of history and the inevitable fallibility of reconstructed memory.