What Remains is a project that emerged from a period in which I felt as though I had lost my home after my parents’ divorce. Through this work, I question the idea of family and the traces that remain after its fragmentation.
I brought together handkerchiefs from my infancy with images that carry the warmth of a past home. The edges of these handkerchiefs were handmade with needle lace by my grandmother, becoming delicate objects that hold the memory of familial warmth and wholeness.
Onto these textiles, I transferred selected photographs from my family archive using the cyanotype printing process. By intervening in the characteristic blue tones of cyanotype, shifting some areas toward faded tones and allowing certain parts to become almost erased, I aimed to express the distance of a home that now remains only as memory.
The starting point of the work goes back to a period when I often walked through the streets to take photographs after the divorce process. I became drawn to clothes hanging on laundry lines. In those images, I sensed the presence of a home somewhere inside — a home I once had and felt I had lost.
When exhibited, the five handkerchiefs are presented hanging on a laundry line. Together, they form the fragile wholeness of a fragmented home and become tangible carriers of longing for a past sense of belonging.