Temporal Traces- (Series I)
Temporal Traces is a body of work that explores the concept of the archive, approaching everyday objects as vessels: repositories of the experiences and temporalities they silently accumulate. All objects featured across the series were sourced from Deptford Market and local shops during fieldwork conducted in 2023 to 2024.
The work adopts an anthropomorphic lens, treating these objects not merely as remnants of use but as silent witnesses to histories of movement, exchange and time. While rooted in human narratives, they are also framed as possessing their own trajectories, autonomous timelines that extend beyond ownership or intended function.
The wall-based works are photographs mounted on envelopes, capturing the selected objects in motion during the image-making process. This intentional distortion produces amorphous forms, proposing a visual language for the objects’ internal archive, a poetic take on their invisible, affective histories or 'soul'. I was interested in how these internal histories, though intangible, could be evoked through material experimentation and image-making.
Temporal Traces (Series I)
40.5 x 25 cm (each)
2025
Envelopes, ink on brown paper, magnets, selection of objects bought from Deptford Market and local shops (2023 to 2024)
