Since I can remember, I have always felt this desire and urgency to collect moments and people in different ways. I have continued this practice to this day and as my fascination for the collection of old family photographs has grown, I have noticed this relationship that exists between the practices of the human being to archive photographs and treasure them for the memories they contain for them.
Since photography is something that we consume and create today with such automatic ease and excess, I wonder if in reality all these digital files that we create can have the same value and strength as a tangible image archived in an important place over the years instead of being archived on a computer's hard drive or cell phone reel.
I look for my own relationship with my memory and how I preserve this through my dad's life; relating the digital photography, videography and auditory archives with different physical images having this relationship with the perpetual and at the same time ephemeral in my memory. I work in this representation of sounds and moments in video to a static image and finally material, being converted into a photobook that can show me these memories and generate this true sense of reality and nostalgia that I feel through them.
