MEMORY SEED

Video Installation and Still Image Series, 2024

“There are photos missing from my childhood album. They haven't been lost or misplaced, they’re not there because they were never taken.”

Memory Seed is a speculative photographic project that attempts to photograph the past by creating visual evidence for memories that were never documented. Anchored in a single childhood image of my sister, the work unfolds through a process that combines AI generated imagery, photomontage, and hand painted digital details, treating artificial intelligence as both a creative collaborator and a conceptual provocateur.

Spanning still and moving images, the project constructs scenes that feel remembered rather than recorded, shaped by emotional resonance rather than factual reconstruction, while questioning what defines photographic authenticity when images are no longer tied to lived events and how memory and authorship shift when human intention meets algorithmic generation.

Originally presented as a three channel, 270 degree projection installation, the work immerses the viewer in a liminal domestic space where the familiar and the fabricated coexist.

The work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and Saatchi Gallery, London.

Exhibitions

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Los Angeles Center of Photography
Expand and Contract: AI and Alternative Processes, 2025

ArtEvol 2025: Voices From The UndefinedSaatchi Gallery, London, 2025