Between Memory and Milk

A photographic exploration of grief and early motherhood, two irreconcilable realities held at once. Blending documentary and double exposures, the work traces what is lost, carried, and transmitted between generations.

Between Memory and Milk explores the experience of raising young children while mourning the death of a parent. Two realities that cannot be reconciled, yet must be inhabited simultaneously: the living body of a child, the fading presence of the one who is gone.

This work moves between absence and presence, between the tangible and the invisible. Blending intimate documentary images with dreamlike double exposures, scenes of domestic life coexist with fragmented visions, blurred presences, and layered bodies that evoke dreams, traces, and the lingering sensation of those who are no longer there.

Grief alters perception. It transforms ordinary moments into spaces shaped by absence and emotional resonance, makes the familiar strange, and renders visible what cannot be seen. Through this visual language, the project asks how two irreconcilable worlds can be held at once, and what forms of coexistence become possible in the space between them.

Rooted in personal experience yet reaching beyond autobiography, Between Memory and Milk reflects on the fragile continuity between generations. On what is transmitted, remembered, lost, and carried forward. On how love persists through absence, memory, touch, and the presence of children growing alongside loss.