A Letter Across Five Frames

If you could communicate with yourself from the past only through five photographs you take today, what would those images look like?

Maybe they speak of what you’ve accomplished. The challenges you overcame, love for something lost or found.

Do they try to show how it felt in those moments, or only what they became with time? Do they hold on to what mattered then, or reveal how your sense of what matters has shifted?

Perhaps they carry regret—or the understanding that came after it. A whispered “I miss you” to who you were, or a sense of ease with how far you’ve come.

Would you place those images in the hands of a self that feels whole, or the one that once felt broken?

Maybe they attempt to reassure, to warn, to explain, to guide, to heal.

And in the end, do they suggest you’ve found more pieces of the puzzle called self, or that some were lost to time? Or that the puzzle was never meant to be complete in the first place?

In my work, I create from feeling and photograph by intuition. That is why for my 5 images (two of them are double exposed in camera, that is why you will see only 3), I gave myself 10 minutes and a relative small area to move around. I didn’t want to give time and space to my thoughts so they become a barrier between the feeling and the camera. The double exposure came by intuition and I also knew instinctively that the photographs will be captured in black and white. Color speaks in emotion, but black and white speaks in tone. Between the black and the white lives a world of deep shadows, modest neutrality, and bright highlights. Just like the shifting layers of memory, past, present and future.

This experiment is a letter to the past, yet its beauty is in the return—the message we send becomes a mirror of who we are now.