New Work In Progress..

What Remains is rooted in my mother's story. Using family photographs transferred onto clay, I'm exploring the quiet erosion of identity that can occur within the roles of wife and mother. The fractured surfaces mirror the ways memory shifts over time while holding traces of love, sacrifice, longing and resilience. These transformed images become acts of remembrance, honoring both what was lost and what endures, and reflecting on the lasting imprint of one woman's life within a family history. 

I work directly into the images, rubbing away parts of the photograph so faces and gestures begin to disappear. This erasure isn't about destruction, but about what it means to lose clarity in memory and lived identity. What is removed becomes as important as what remains.

The clay adds it own language. It cracks, shifts, and holds every touch, echoing how family narratives are formed and fractured over time. The photograph is no longer fixed- it's something unstable, something still changing over time.

These works sit in that state: between remembering and forgetting, between presence and absence. They reflect the quiet disappearance of self that can happen in a life built for others, and the traces that still remain.