Visual Diary, 2023-2025

Over the past two years, I have kept an artistic diary that has accompanied me everywhere, traveled thousands of kilometers with me, and witnessed countless stops and encounters.

I have always been interested in how we preserve the past. In each place, I made color sketches—blotches that captured space as I saw it without glasses: blurred, elusive, like memory itself at the moment of its birth.
Months later, I returned to these sketches and tried to recall: what remained with me? Almost always, it turned out that I remembered not what I had intended to hold onto. Instead, strange, peripheral fragments persisted— a bush, graffiti, cracks on walls that had taken on recognizable shapes—rather than precise images of loved ones, for example. These details became anchors, preserving the emotional density of memories and transforming into peculiar symbols of collective experience.

This series is about how memory distills experience, turning details into symbols. About how random fragments assemble into a collective language, a system of signs that we share.

In this series, I combine real artifacts with images that arise in memory, exploring how the personal and the collective intertwine. For me, it is important to understand how collective memory operates through such fragments, how it distills experience and translates it into a system of signs and symbols.