Ash Memories delves into the concepts of trace and memory through the medium of fire. Employing performative processes, I engaged with the different stages of a fire to capture its traces. During the combustion phase, I touched the flames with paper to record their marks. At the threshold where flame touches without consuming, the paper serves as a vessel, a "container," to store the flames' imprints and the transiency of that moment.
Once the fire had naturally extinguished, I worked with the residual ashes and char by rubbing paper onto the ground. Unfolding through its stages, the work inhabits the interval between event and residue, transforming ephemerality into a tangible, permanent form.
Relating temporality to the creative act, Ash Memories exists as the material outcome of transience and transformation.
The work was developed in residence at NAHR, Val Taleggio, Italy, (July 2024).
