“People Do Not Disappear Immediately”

“People Do Not Disappear Immediately”
Tempera on paper
30 × 40 cm
2022

This work is about memory and the way people continue existing inside us even after they are gone.

I wanted to preserve the feeling of an old photograph, a sudden memory, or an emotional trace that cannot completely disappear. The black-and-white composition makes the work feel like a fragment of the past still surviving outside of time.For me, this work exists somewhere between memory, silence, and human absence.

“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love.”
— Louise Bourgeois