SEAMS ON BLUE

This summer, my father passed away. "Seams on Blue" is a photographic project in which I explore memory as a plastic act, where the image becomes a field for a tactile dialogue with time.

Through the synthesis of two mediums — analog photography (cyanotype) and hand embroidery — I attempt to process the loss and create a hybrid optics, where the visual is experienced as the physical. This is what I urgently need right now.

Sound emerges in the rhythm of the stitches, in the tactile whisper of the thread piercing the paper. It is the quiet, persistent sound of memory, materializing in the applied gesture.

Image is the cyanotype print, where blue serves as a metaphor for an intermediate state: a wound, a bruise, a portal. Ultraviolet light develops the invisible, transforming archival family photographs and images of my father in severe illness into ghostly traces — much like how memory gradually erases the sharp contours of the past.

Space of the project is this field of blue, upon which the geography of personal loss unfolds. Nine works become my map of grief, and embroidery acts as a means of navigation: the colored threads are routes of healing, an attempt to "sew" back together the unraveled fabric of time, to close the wound with light and color.