Olivia Ross

Tecnica: Cyanotype paper collage mounted on wooden canvas

Anno: 2025

Dimensione: 20.32 x 25.4cm

Descrizione: This is a cyanotype collage exploring my own personal history after losing many of my physical memories in a 2017 house fire that destroyed about 90% of my family photos, all of my childhood videos and numerous bits and pieces from my childhood. This work engages with this loss while also exploring what it means to lose these things that seem so irreplaceable. Through the historic process of cyanotype, I attempt to give form to what can no longer be photographed and to reflect on what remains of memory when these things are lost. When I think of my lost photos and videos they were once material proof of presence and now I only have stories, traces and memories. I invite the viewer into that quiet space, to sense what remains, what fades and what lingers, and to reflect on how memory is rewritten when a physical archive is gone.