I am a printmaker, photographer and mixed media artist whose work focuses on experimental screen printing techniques and cyanotype processes. My body of work 'Between What Remains' explores how recollected childhood memories can remain in a space. Using my Grandmother's apartment, I express how fragments from a domestic environment can provoke remembrance. I consider how these memories exist as indistinct, fragmented moments that remain as material forms. Through the use of objects, décor and photographs, I depict not only the environment of the apartment but also reflect on prominent childhood memories with my German Grandmother and Hungarian Grandfather, as relatives who are no longer alive. Through processes, such as screen printing onto fabric as well as cyanotype printing, I evoke the fragile memory of my Grandmother's apartment as a space that no longer exists in the same way. The appearance of the apartment is no longer how I remember it, which is why when portraying the space I maintain the recollection of how it once looked. Preserving the archival fragments of the apartment keeps the transient memories within the space alive, allowing me to hold onto details that would otherwise fade or shift overtime. The apartment itself also contained photographic traces of my family across its walls, depicting a multigenerational journey and reinforcing the ways in which memory, object and space were intertwined. I incorporate elements of my Grandmother's lace and sheer fabric in my work to encompass how patterns and textures can become intrinsically connected to a domestic space. Through altering the clarity of the lace patterns in the artwork, I reflect on the vivid yet transient nature of memories while also conveying the fragility of the interior, of the apartment, as an environment that holds sentimental significance, allowing fragments of the space to still remain.
