You'll Drift Apart

This body of work explores the entangled relationship between grief, memory, and identity through tactile photographic processes. My practice investigates how personal loss shapes and reshapes our sense of self. Initially rooted in my personal experience of losing my mother, the work has evolved toward a more universal reflection on how we carry others within us. Those others are both the other people we meet, but also our own internal memories of our self.

Materiality is central to my process. I move between digital and analogue, using fabric, film, collage, double exposures and darkroom techniques to create layered, fragmented compositions. I use my mother’s clothing as a stand in for the body – physically removing the garments from photographs and from the person who wore them. By reprinting these onto chiffon, I introduce transparency and movement, allowing the fabric to become a site of emotional and material engagement. The camera becomes a space of intra-action, where fragments of my mother and my own body co-emerge.

Ultimately, You’ll Drift Apart is a meditation on the porous boundaries between self and other. Through tactile, intuitive processes, the work seeks to provoke reflection and offer space for healing, where identity is not a singular truth but a constellation of fragments, always in motion. You’ll Drift Apart evokes the dissolution of the self into the wider world - a metaphor for both death and the continual reformation of identity.