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RE:MEMORY

[four part publication 13.5x19cm]
/2025

PALIMPSEST
CONTACT SHEET
RETROINTROSPECTION
DOUBLE EXPOSURE


RE : MEMORY SET
BOOK 1 : PALIMPSEST
BOOK 1: PROCESS
BOOK 2 : CONTACT SHEET
BOOK 3 : RETROINTROSPECTION
BOOK 3: PROCESS
BOOK 4 : DOUBLE EXPOSURE
BOOK 4 : PROCESS


RE:MEMORY is a four-part publication exploring memory as a deeply emotional, material, and narrative force. It investigates how memories are constructed, distorted, and preserved – not as fixed records, but as shifting, interpretive experiences. 

Working with my own family archive, each book in the series offers a different approach to the act of remembering, both in form and in feeling. Loosely inspired by Susan Stewart’s writing on the miniature, the gigantic, and longing, the series moves between intimacy and monumentality, personal reflection and collective resonance.






BOOK 1 _PALIMPSEST

Palimpsest invites a tactile, devotional engagement with memory. It began by deconstructing a previous book in which I had written directly onto photographs from my family archive. Removed from their original binding, these pages were reordered, rewritten, and re-collided through an emotional, intuitive process. The resulting spreads form new stories from fragments of old ones – echoing the way memory shifts as it is revisited.

Printed on translucent bible paper and loosely bound with an elastic band, the book’s form reflects its content: layered, fragile, provisional. Readers are encouraged to disassemble and reassemble it, creating their own narrative paths. Palimpsest treats memory as a sacred but unstable construction – a palimpsest of emotions and meanings constantly being rewritten.












BOOK 2 _CONTACT SHEET

Contact Sheet explores memory through sequence, scale, and storytelling. Using over 500 photographs from my archive, I worked in the format of a contact sheet – equalising and miniaturising each image to remove visual hierarchy. This smallness invited intimacy, encouraging the reader to lean in, to inspect.

The images were then arranged into five themed sequences – touching on identity, childhood, performance, introversion, and family. These curated stories were paired with poetic fragments, drawing inspiration from Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, and La Jetée.





The result is a hybrid of poetry and photo-narrative – highly personal, but open-ended. Bound horizontally with screw-posts, the book evokes the feel of a children’s book, grounding complex emotional content in accessible, familiar form.






BOOK 3 _RETROINTROSPECTION


Retrointrospection examines the porous boundary between self and other – where memories blur and overlap across individuals. Developed from a workshop where participants responded vocally to a montage of my home footage, the final book weaves anonymised fragments of their transcripts with stills from the video.

This shared, stream-of-consciousness voice reveals how memory often operates as projection and resonance – we see ourselves in the stories of others. Influenced by Annette Kuhn’s work on photo elicitation, this book treats memory as an interpretive act, not a static truth. The coptic binding, with six signatures and six link stitches, honours the six participants, symbolising their distinct but intertwined voices.







BOOK 4_ DOUBLE EXPOSURE


Double Exposure confronts the emotional scale of memory and the colossal force of time. Archival and contemporary images were manually overlaid and printed at A0 scale, then installed on the cliffs at Seven Sisters – exposed to the elements until they tore, warped, and degraded.

This performative process mirrored the erosion of memory over time. The resulting images – distorted, weathered, and monumental – evoke Stewart’s notion of the souvenir collapsing past and present. The final book translates these prints into a fold-out concertina, stretching beyond the page and into sculptural space. Double Exposure is both elegy and encounter – an acknowledgment of memory’s beauty, vulnerability, and eventual decay.









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