To My Mother is a project composed of images from my family archive and digital collage. Developed between 2023 and 2024, it follows my mother’s search for a new identity, a new life, and a new sense of existence after my parents’ divorce.
A life lived in the shadow of another for twenty-five years raises a difficult question: is it possible to begin again by returning to the places of one’s childhood? This narrative traces my mother’s search for herself as she takes fragile, tentative steps into a different life.
The project moves through uncertainty, blur, and waves. Combining contemporary photographs with family archive images, it reflects both emotional disorientation and the attempt to hold on to something while everything is shifting.
Through these layered images, To My Mother becomes both a personal testimony and a reflection on memory, loss, and the effort of rebuilding a self after rupture.