Fly in Amber

The project explores the fragile relationship between memory, time, and place. It is rooted in a deep emotional attachment to a place the artist once called home for seven years, and reflects on how memory transforms lived experience into something idealized, distant, and ultimately unreachable.

The project is built around the idea that memory is not linear, but layered and unstable. It brings together personal photographs, archival fragments, and drawings made by the artist’s son at different moments in time. These materials form a shifting dialogue between past and present, between what is remembered and what is being continuously reconstructed.

At its core, the work examines how personal history is never fixed, but constantly rewritten through repetition, distance, and emotional projection. The child’s drawings become a parallel archive of perception — one that changes as time passes, yet remains inseparable from the place that shaped it.

Fly in Amber asks whether return is ever truly possible, or whether every attempt to revisit the past only reveals its transformation. Memory appears here not as a narrative, but as a suspended state — where time folds onto itself, preserving traces of what once was, while quietly altering their meaning.