She Was Tall, My Mother, and Valiant

In an attempt to cope with loss and reflect on the relationship I had with my mother after her unexpected death, I began documenting her belongings. As I navigated through my grief, I photographed her personal effects.

What significance do the objects we use represent?

What do they reveal about a person?

I photographed the objects using different tools: digital, analog, and camera-less techniques. By employing various media resources with distinct qualities and properties, I attempted to metaphorize the mother-daughter relationship.

The series She Was Tall, My Mother, and Valiant seeks to represent the passage of time through objects—objects that allow me to reminisce about the past while reflecting on how perceptions of beauty, influenced by culture, society, and the evolution of ideal beauty expectations, sometimes signified our relationship.

This series seeks to articulate the past and the present, document the perception of grace, and explore narratives of femininity. Above all, it is about loss and the search for physical and psychological traces of the passage of time.