Memory Constructed

Description

Inspired by recorded discussions between myself and four interviewees; I questioned them about their lost loved ones and discussed what they felt was missing from their relationship; then ask them the central question of this project. “If you could have one memory with your lost loved one, what would it be?”

I explored unresolved grief, generational trauma and nostalgia as my interviewees all had one fundamental ordeal in common, they experienced a particular type of grief called Ambiguous Loss, coined by Pauline Boss and Janet R Yeats. Ambiguous Loss is a kind of loss that lingers in one’s life due to a lack of closure or resolution, occurring for various reasons such as “physical absence with the psychological presence or psychological absence with a physical presence”.

A 24 page staple-bound zine, measuring 120mm x 120mm with high-quality matte cover.