In an era defined by image saturation and ephemeral content, Visual Record (2025) turns to the overlooked archive of personal photography — screenshots, selfies, places, people, moments — to reimagine how we document and remember the passage of time. These everyday images exist on the periphery of our attention, yet collectively form a rich, emotional landscape of daily life.
Drawing on these snapshots stored in our phones, Visual Record abstracts these digital elements into a chromatic language. It asks: what if memory could be preserved through atmosphere and tone? By distilling and using colour as a mode of recall, this series moves away from conventional documentation and toward a sensorial reflection of lived experience.
Our memories need not be precise to be meaningful. In softening the specificity of people, places, and events, Visual Record opens up a more expansive field of remembering — it becomes a portrait of the year, less as it happened, more as it was felt.
Each artwork in this series captures a month of 2024 and is created by reconstructing digital data. The colours were extracted from each month’s photo grid — blurred to strip away detail and form, mirroring how memories gradually soften and blend over time.
The compositions were then formatted into a circular configuration — the shape symbolising the repetitive and continuous nature of time and human experience. The diameter of each piece is determined by the number of photos taken during that month, relative to the other months, translating digital memory accumulation into spatial form. As a result, months rich in visual documentation manifest as larger, more dynamic compositions, while quieter periods produce smaller, stiller ones.
Finally, each digital composition is transformed into a sculptural surface using Hot Melt Adhesive and paint on wood. This shift gives weight and presence to this data of digital memory – offering a new way to hold, contemplate, and recall our year through touch, colour, scale, and space.
