My work explores memory and how it fades and shifts over time.

Personal memories of my grandparents’ Polish floral garden couple with familial memories of times, places and people that came before me. Collecting photographs and flowers helps me to hold onto these memories.

 

While the passage of time can alter memories beyond recognition or lose them irreversibly, photographs enable us to revisit forgotten memories and to discover those unknown to us. Like long-term inter-generational memory becoming renewed by repetition, preserving photographs becomes a means of prolonging memory for future generations.

 

But photographs, like memory, loose their sharpness over time and reproduction. My work enables me to recapture, refresh and restore memories that are potent links to my Polish past. The pansy becomes a metaphor for memory and how it withers over time.