Past–Future–Now (originally produced in 2012) is a photographic installation that traces the fragile continuum of familial memory through a curated selection of digital and analogue prints drawn from a family album spanning 1982 to 2011. Presented in a meticulous grid, the work stages a slow visual dissolution—from clarity to near-erasure—as the viewer moves from one side of the composition to the other. This gradual fading is not just a formal gesture, but a metaphor for the shifting reliability of memory, the mutability of archives, and the impermanence of photographic media. Each image, whether sharply rendered or barely visible, speaks to the persistence of presence within loss and the tension between preservation and forgetting.
The interplay between analog and digital formats reinforces the layered temporality implied in the title: Past–Future–Now. These are not simply moments captured, but temporal states collapsed into one visual field, where familial lineage becomes both a trace and a projection. As the images drift toward disappearance, the work prompts reflection on the ways memory inhabits space—how it lingers, decays, and is continually re-formed. Here, the archive is not a static repository but a living terrain where identity, time, and technology intersect and dissolve into one another.