never will be the same

never will be the same

2025

This series is a reflection on the way we remember and forget.

As children, we often saw the world as larger, stranger, more frightening than it really was. Then we look back from a distance and recognize those places as safer, brighter and smaller. But sometimes the opposite is true: reality is far more overwhelming than we recall.

 

What seemed small becomes infinite. What felt safe becomes unknowable. What looked sweet becomes unbearable. What was clear becomes blurred.

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