legos from the series "un-possible retour"

By Clarisse dArcimoles

UN-POSSIBLE RETOUR

Attracted by the photograph's ability to cross the time, I looked at my family albums and re-examined familiar scenes. Photography gives us memories we hardly knew we had: The house where we were born, our mothers when young, the embarrassing clothes we wore as adolescents. Photography is a way for me to revisit the past.
I pore over my snapshots intrigued by the way I presented myself to the camera, how my parents saw our family and how those choices influenced my memory.

Restaging a specific instant can take weeks of planning and several hours of shooting while the original moment happened spontaneously and without control.

A memory is never static, it changes as we grow, time become a creative space of evolution.

In the conparaison I unavoidably failed, we have to fail. There is no return into time.