Vestige

Vestige reinterprets nostalgia as something fragile yet enduring, a presence that lingers even as it fades. The memory I bring back is of my father, whose passing blurred much of my childhood. The concept behind Vestige is that nostalgia is not a perfect photograph of the past but a shifting trace that grows with us. Instead of treating nostalgia as a return to the past, Vestige positions it as a transformation. The collection shows how memory fractures yet continues to illuminate, how absence becomes presence through form, light, and motion. Grief does not vanish but settles into something enduring, a proof of love that evolves with time,