Architectures of Memory, 2025. Childhood photographs, satellite images, and parchment paper.

Since moving to Colorado from Mississippi, I feel as though I’ve grown closer to my hometown in a lot of ways. I find myself filled with a sort of homesickness and yearning that I hadn’t experienced until moving across the country, despite living on my own since I was 15 years old. For this body of work, I decided to work with photos from my childhood. I pixelated the images to sort of remove them from myself, much how my memories feel removed from me. The closer to them you are then the blurrier they become. I then paired these images with Google Maps screenshots of places from my childhood that were significant to me, as well as some writings about being homesick, growing up, and change that were written on thrifted parchment paper that seems to be yellowing from age.