Shared Days, 2007
Photograph series on Alu Dibond
Saar University of Fine Arts (HBKsaar), Saarbrücken, Germany
Shared Days is a photographic series developed from reflections on deceased family members and friends. The project began with research at Saarbrücken’s Old Cemetery, founded in 1851, where several historic graves remain. As the cemetery gradually shifted from burial ground to recreational park, the inscriptions on the surviving tombstones have continued to fade. Their erosion became a material image of memory itself: present, yet increasingly fragile.
In response, I wrote four short texts about relationships with lost family members and friends and asked close friends to read them. A few weeks later, we met again to speak about the resonance these texts had produced. I recorded these conversations and listened to them repeatedly. Working with a macro lens, I translated these echoes into photographs, returning through image to the fragile texture of shared days.