Echoes of Memory

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Echoes of Memory began with a shell I have kept since childhood.

I bought it during a school trip to the Baltic Sea when I was thirteen, travelling with my brother and sister. My brother died years later, at the age of twenty-two. The shell remained.

For this drawing, I asked my daughter to hold it and pose for me. Watching an object from my own childhood pass into her hands brought together two different moments in my life — the family I came from and the family I am raising now.

There is an old fascination with holding a shell to the ear and imagining that we can hear the sea within it. What we actually hear is the resonance of the world around us. I began to think of memory in a similar way: the past does not return unchanged, but is heard again through the circumstances of the present.

Drawn in charcoal and graphite, the figure emerges from a darkened interior while the shell is held close to her ear. Her stillness turns an ordinary gesture into a moment of listening.

Echoes of Memory reflects on what remains when people and moments have passed — the objects we keep, the memories attached to them, and the quiet ways they move from one generation to another.

Title: Echoes of Memory
Year: 2023
Medium: Charcoal and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 58 × 83 cm (22.8 × 32.7 in)
Framing: Unframed
Signature: Signed by the artist
Certificate of Authenticity: Included

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