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. The series works with old film photographs taken by my father and his family throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These photographs are projected onto abstract paintings created on paper, allowing the two visual languages to overlap and interfere with one another. Faces melt into color fields, gestures echo across brushstrokes, and familiar scenes dissolve into abstraction.

The series engages with 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 is remembered. By layering personal painterly traces over a familial photographic archive, these works create a visual dialogue that moves between generations, between mediums, and between emotion and image.