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This is a series of cyanotype prints about my own personal history after losing many of my physical memories in a 2017 house fire that destroyed about 90% of my family photos, all of my childhood videos and numerous bits and pieces from my childhood. This work engages with this loss while also exploring what it means to lose these things that seem so irreplaceable. Through the historic process of cyanotype, I attempt to give form to what can no longer be photographed and to reflect on what remains of memory when these things are lost. The works in this exhibition are abstract and tonally varied, echoing the fragmented and unstable nature of childhood memory. I do not attempt to reconstruct what was lost but instead to explore the tension between presence and absence.

The ritual of cyanotype is resonant to this project and its meaning: by creating an image with a collage of negatives and then washing away the sensitiser to reveal the new image, the process becomes a thoughtful, almost ceremonial act that echoes the disappearance of physical traces and the quiet persistence of memory. When I think of my lost photos and videos they were once material proof of presence and now I only have stories, traces and memories. I invite the viewer into that quiet space, to sense what remains, what fades and what lingers, and to reflect on how memory is rewritten when a physical archive is gone.