Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens

Painted Memories: A Dialogue with My Father's Lens is a personal and emotional journey into the space between photography and painting. I worked with old film photos taken by my father and his family throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. I projected these photographs onto abstract paintings I created on paper, letting the two worlds overlap and interfere with one another. Faces melt into color fields, gestures echo across brushstrokes, and familiar scenes dissolve into abstraction.

This series is about memory, loss, and the shifting nature of family archives. It questions the boundaries of photography as a documentary medium and explores how painting can reshape and reframe what we think we remember. By layering my traces over my family's archive, I tried to create a visual dialogue that moves between generations, between mediums, and between emotion and image.