Afterimages, 2021-23. Dye-sublimation prints, magnets, steel bar, text. 18’ installation.
"Afterimages" (2021-23) is a series of iPhone photos and note entries that reflect on the experience of loss, documenting the period between my parents’ deaths in 2019 and 2020 and the subsequent time after.
The images depict scenes and objects within my childhood home as it has changed in ways visible and felt. Casual snapshots that were initially forgotten about resurface as a poignant record of what has vanished. Each dye-sublimation print is produced with the Canon SELPHY, a portable smartphone printer designed for on-demand home use. Fragments of text, arranged on sheets of Avery mailing labels and interspersed with the images, loosely ground the visuals in personal narrative and establish a fractured rhythm.
The presentation imposes the linear structure of a timeline, yet the content operates under an unsteady temporal logic that overlays past and present. Rearranged with each exhibition, the sequence remains open to change, embodying the idea of "afterness" as an undetermined state of being; not an ending, but a potentiality.
The images depict scenes and objects within my childhood home as it has changed in ways visible and felt. Casual snapshots that were initially forgotten about resurface as a poignant record of what has vanished. Each dye-sublimation print is produced with the Canon SELPHY, a portable smartphone printer designed for on-demand home use. Fragments of text, arranged on sheets of Avery mailing labels and interspersed with the images, loosely ground the visuals in personal narrative and establish a fractured rhythm.
The presentation imposes the linear structure of a timeline, yet the content operates under an unsteady temporal logic that overlays past and present. Rearranged with each exhibition, the sequence remains open to change, embodying the idea of "afterness" as an undetermined state of being; not an ending, but a potentiality.
