Two Kodachrome slides printed via the colour darkroom enlarger, positives in a negative process. Hung via photo corners. 20.3 x 25.4 cm.

The image was created by placing one slide over another in the enlarger and aligning them so that only the hands and watch remain. The colours are reversed as the positive slide film is mediated through a negative printing process. This inversion reflects the possible slippage between appearance and lived experience.

Unlike a digital image, the photograph is produced through a physical process of film, light, chemistry and paper. These material layers echo the way memories are formed, altered and preserved. The work explores the relationship between memory and reality, and how photographs shape our understanding of the past while remaining fragmentary and uncertain.

It also speaks to motherhood and the generational influence on who we are today - My mother was raised by my Granny and that accumulation of care, behaviours and values that shaped her have, in turn, shaped myself and my children.

The overlapping images suggest this continuity: how lives, memories and relationships become layered across generations, shaping who we are and who those who follow us might become.