The Lost Secrets

The Lost Secrets reflects on the idea that not everything is meant to be fully understood, read, or revealed. There are histories, memories, and conversations that fade over time — not disappearing completely, but becoming unreadable, like a text that still exists but can no longer be deciphered.

Within In Between The Lines, this work considers language not only as a tool for communication, but also as a container of time. When language is repeated, erased, layered, or obscured, it begins to behave like memory — partial, fragile, and incomplete.

The work reflects on what is lost over time: meanings, intentions, conversations, and histories. Yet even when they can no longer be clearly read, their presence remains. Something has been said, something has been lived, something has been remembered — even if it can no longer be fully recovered.

The Lost Secrets is about the presence of something that can no longer be fully known, but still exists as a trace.

The Lost Secrets | Ink on paper | 11 x 8 inches | 2017