Time Passes is a visual meditation on memory, presence, and the passage of time, explored
through encounters with personal imagery and fragmented archives. Using childhood
photographs, family archives, and layered interventions—both hand-drawn and digitally
inscribed—the work confronts lived experience as a face we continually meet and re-meet over time.
Through quiet encounters with the past—a portrait from years ago, traces of spaces and sound,
gestures of familial presence—the series reflects on how memory holds us and how time
transforms us, shaping identity beyond literal representation. Time Passes invites the viewer to
face not only one another, but also ourselves, our pasts, and the passage of time that
simultaneously erases and preserves what matters most.
The project is presented as a sequence of images that move between stillness and recollection,
creating a dialogue between what once was and what remains—a sustained face-to-face
engagement with time itself. Alongside the photographic works, a video documents my empty
childhood room. The visuals are accompanied solely by an audio recording of my family
members and myself speaking, allowing absence and voice to coexist within the same space.
The installation centers around one large-scale image as the focal point, surrounded by smaller
works that operate as fragments or echoes, reinforcing the sense of memory as layered and non-linear.
Addressing both my parents and my younger self, Time Passes unfolds as an intimate dialogue
shaped by reflection, distance, and return. Through letters, archival imagery, and photographic
interventions, the work acknowledges unspoken emotions—guilt, shame, disappointment, and
deep love—not to resolve them, but to recognize their presence and transformation over time.
Rather than functioning as messages meant to be received, the letters operate as acts of presence.
They mark moments of confrontation and reconciliation, where past and present meet without urgency.
Forgiveness is approached not as closure, but as a continuous process that requires
repeated encounters with the self.Through photography, text, and sound, Time Passes
examines familial relationships and inherited emotional landscapes while tracing an evolving
relationship with the self.
The project forms a growing archive shaped by memory, absence, and change, inviting the viewer
into a quiet, sustained face-to-face encounter—with time, with intimacy, and with the self as it
continues to unfold.
Year 2024/Present - WIP
