33.4 x 33.4 x 2cm
 
Timber, charcoal and pastel
 
Some memories live only through the photographs that preserve them. With Aphantasia, the image becomes a substitute for experience: the moment itself cannot be revisited, only carried forward in description. This work holds to such a memory — a child on the sand, hesitant before the sea — known not through recollection but through the photograph that proves it happened. The image becomes both evidence and absence, suggesting the event without ever returning it. In this way, memory lingers as circumstantial: partial, fragile, and always just beyond reach.