{Un}folding Memories is part of ongoing series “The skin around me” which is about my childhood, both the joyful moments and the challenges. Many of these precious memories resurfaced earlier this year when I began writing them down in January. It was a quiet, reflective journey that lasted four months. This piece explores the fragile nature of memory, how layered and complex it is.
Our memories can be easily buried beneath time, loss, trauma, and the instinct to protect ourselves. When we begin to seek out what’s been forgotten, a deep sense of nostalgia often arises. The more we search, the more it grows, filling the spaces left by what we once knew but can no longer fully recall. In this work, I’ve expressed these emotions by writing onto large-scale white foam, shaping each form as life has shaped me, layered, intricate, and complex.