Gone & Leaving
Handmade Accordion Photography Art Book
1125cm x 32cm
2023
Gone and Leaving is a photobook that explores the layered complexity of identity, memory, and human connection through a visceral blend of photography, collage, and text. Rather than adhering to traditional documentation, the work unfolds as a fragmented narrative — an immersive journey through thoughts, sensations, and recollections shaped by the tension between presence and absence. The book’s structure mirrors this duality: the first half reads front to back, while the second unfolds in reverse, evoking the cyclical yet ruptured nature of personal and collective experience. To arrive is to depart; to become lost is first to be found.
Images within the photobook resist static representation, they collapse, reconstruct, and distort. A constant tension emerges between the warmth of light and the shadow of melancholy, between what is recovered and what remains lost. Photography and collage intertwine to form a visual language of fragmentation, a deliberate chaos that echoes the nature of memory: elusive, mutable, and always in flux. Each page serves as a puzzle piece, never entirely complete, inviting continuous reinterpretation.
The materiality of the book plays a vital role in the narrative. Found objects, handwritten notes, torn papers, and ephemera function as symbolic fragments of memory and identity. These tactile elements invite a sensory engagement, drawing the viewer into a physical experience of the themes explored.
Gone and Leaving is not merely a visual project but a sensory and emotional encounter, an invitation into the fragile terrain of remembrance and belonging. By deconstructing and reconstructing personal histories, the work opens space for reflection on the instability and beauty inherent in the search for self and connection.

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