To Smell It Again

To Smell It Again reflects on the way memory is often triggered by the smallest and most fragile traces — a scent, a feeling, a passing moment. These traces have the ability to suddenly return us to a time, a place, or a person that no longer exists in the present, yet continues to exist within us.

Within the larger body of work In Between The Lines, this work considers how memory does not return as a complete narrative, but as a sensation — something we cannot fully see or hold, yet something we recognize immediately. The desire “to smell it again” is not only about scent, but about the human desire to return to a moment that has already passed.

The work reflects on longing — not for a place, but for a moment in time that can never be repeated, only remembered.

To smell it again | Ink and collage on wasli paper | 20 x 26 inches | 2018