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.