Time's Relentless Melt 

Re-exposed 9.5mm Found Film, 35mm Photogram Lightcollage, Sublimation print, Mirror

2025

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt". 

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977 

An exploration on time, memory, and mortality, Time’s Relentless Melt uses forgotten 9.5mm family film strips to explore the erosion of time and the duality of renewal and destruction present in decay. Through processes of distortion, the images are resurrected into the present, no longer as clear records, but as ghostly remnants. While the original context is severed and details are eroded, these gaps of meaning allow a collective perspective to emerge, which reflects back to us our mortality but also our humanity.