Dear Euodia and Burnt candles

Dear Euodia is a photographic installation. The photographs were taken from frames of a video where I read my medical records to my camera.

Burnt Candles is an installation. The photographs within the jars are taken from a photo journaling process, where I told my camera my story of sexual violence. The photographs are then placed into glass jars and burned, creating ash. 

As each of the projects were created using journaling, photographs, and memoirs, when placed together, the two works bring out the theme of memories and traumatic recalls.

The photographs have been burnt so that part of each image is no longer there. The burnt edges of the photographs are stitched up; like a bandage from an amputation… or suturing of a wound.

Ash becomes a great metaphor in this body of work as burning is seen as ceremonial, cleansing, and cremation. However, ash never disappears. It is always there. It can be swept away but it will still float in the air, attaching itself to whatever it can. It lives forever, but hides among the dirt, dust, and dead skin cells.