Aura/ Halo

This photography series explores the fragility and impermanence of memory, inspired by the artist’s father’s early Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2013. As his father's memory faded, the artist began documenting the experience through a project titled Dad Went on A Journey. This led to a broader reflection on how photography can preserve memories. The artist started collecting discarded photographs and negatives of strangers, realizing that even once-cherished images lose meaning over time. A printing error—an image printed on the wrong side of the paper—resulted in a ghostly, distorted photo, which became a metaphor for fading memory. Inspired, the artist began intentionally printing portraits on the back of photo paper, creating blurred, anonymous images that evoke the fear of being forgotten. These experiments visually express how memory, identity, and even photography itself can deteriorate and disappear. The series ultimately questions how we remember, what we forget, and how shifting from printed photographs to digital may accelerate the loss of personal and collective memory.