invitation to lost time

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In Invitation to Lost Time, large-scale aluminum photographs explore how human memory fails and histories vanish. The series began with a box of family photographs from two and three generations ago. Finding myself familiar with the domestic backdrops but alienated from the anonymous relatives inside them, I physically folded the paper to hide the figures. Only eerie fragments remain—a disembodied sleeve, a shadow, or a hairline. These altered snapshots are scanned, scaled up to life-size proportions, printed directly onto aluminum, and floated in minimalist black frames to highlight their physical weight.
The heavy, fractured creases violently interrupt the image, forcing the viewer's eye away from the missing subjects and toward the background details: lace tablecloths, floral drapes, and mid-century lamps. These nostalgic remnants collide with modern digital distortions, where the scanner has registered the deep folds as brilliant, electric-blue and iridescent light leaks. Moving between deep pictorial windows and flat, scarred metal sheets, my work captures the friction between personal and collective memory. Invitation to Lost Time stands as an archive of manipulated objects, proving that as time passes, our traditional tools for storytelling inevitably break down.