The overall goal of my study, A Use for New Narratives, was to better understand the role of memory in archival conservation and explore how photographers working with archival imagery can balance factual preservation with interpretive transmission, and whether such a balance is truly possible. Alongside the paper, I developed two projects: Residual Memory and We Wait for Sleep to Go Back in Time. One weaves together deteriorating family photographs, my own images, and pressed dead flowers to reflect the way memory fragments, fades, and transforms over time. The other extends this exploration through video, reusing digitized Super 8 footage from the 1960s and 1970s originally shot by my grandfather. Together, the works suggest that while personal memories may fade, fragments of them continue to linger within us, subtly connected through color, emotion, and collective experience.

 

Below are the accompanying video and two PDF documents containing my thesis

paper and photographic project.