Tell Me About Your Grandmother is a personal visual art project exploring grief, memory, appreciation, and intergenerational love.
The project emerged from a therapy session as a way of honoring my grandmother, who spent months in the ICU before passing away from a brain haemorrhage.
While I was struggling with the uncertainty of loss, my therapist asked me a simple question that shifted my perspective from fear to gratitude:
"Tell me about your grandmother."
That question became an invitation to remember—not her illness, but her life. It opened the door to stories that were intimate, ordinary, joyful, and painful. From that moment, the project grew beyond biography into an exploration of the universal experience of remembering the people who shape us.
Using photography, video, audio recordings, and personal archives, the work explores how memory is carried through voices, gestures, family narratives, and everyday rituals. It reflects on the relationship between grief and gratitude, revealing how we often come to understand the depth of love only when confronted with the possibility of losing it.
While deeply personal, the project creates a shared space where audiences are invited to reflect on their own losses, family histories, and the people whose presence continues to shape their lives. Rather than focusing solely on personal remembrance, the work expands into a collective landscape of memory, exploring how those we have lost continue to exist through the places we inhabit, the sounds we hear, the traditions we inherit, and the natural world around us. Their absence becomes another form of presence—woven into our daily lives through nature, heritage, and memory.
At its heart, Tell Me About Your Grandmother asks:
How do we preserve someone whose greatest legacy exists in memory?
And what happens when telling their stories becomes a way of keeping them alive?
2025-WIP
