Clouded Memory (Series)
The Weather Within
Cyanotype on watercolor paper
17.5 x 29.5 inches, 2025
Available
Honorable Mention, 2025Annual Fall Art Show, Seacoast Artists Guild
Published in The Grandparents Project, Photo Trouvée Magazine (2025)
This image of my grandmother, Nadine, has always felt layered with things unsaid. By merging her portrait with cloud imagery, I’m exploring the emotional weight she may have carried, memories, secrets, and quiet storms just out of reach.
The clouds become a space where thought and memory blur, where a person exists somewhere between what was lived and what was never spoken. She passed away from Alzheimer’s in 2012, just four months after my mother.
The same image shifts across materials that carry their own histories.
The handmade paper softens the image at its edges, allowing it to feel less fixed and more fleeting. The circular form holds the figure like a contained moment, suspended rather than fully formed.
Here, memory feels less like a record and more like something that drifts, shifting slightly each time it’s recalled.
Clouded Memory
Cyanotype
on handmade watercolor paper
17.5 x 29.5 inches, 2025
Private collection
Clouded Memory II
Cyanotype on vintage handkerchief
12 x 12 inches
Available
Printed onto a vintage handkerchief, the image shifts into something more intimate. The surface carries its own history, softening the figure and folding memory into something tactile.
The added color feels like interference, or preservation, suggesting how memory changes as it is passed down, handled, and held.
This version lives on a domestic textile, something once used, kept, and likely forgotten. The image sits within that history, where memory is no longer just seen but embedded in the object itself. It becomes less about a single person and more about what remains, fragments, traces, and the quiet presence of what was once part of everyday life.
