The project, traces, explores some of the ideas about home and its destruction. It considers the home both as a physical place, and as something familial. The images in this project illustrate the aftermath of a sort of violence: the quietness, calmness and solitude that follows. In the same way that one might go for a stroll in nature or contemplate in bed before falling asleep, the slow process of taking analogue photographs has presented me with a means of reflection.
Inspired by ideas of postmemory, as put forward by Marianne Hirsch, as well as events in my present life, such as my parents’ divorce, I have used photography to preserve things as they are; to try and slow down the process of things falling apart.