This work is dedicated to the life of my Gran. Exploring concepts of time, place and memory, I have taken aspects of my Gran’s life and combined them together. Digitally drawing houses that she used to live in, and maps of these places, old family photographs and the calligraphy of her handwriting, I use these to create an archive of memories that celebrate her life. Her handwriting and the family photographs explore the notion of the index ‘having been there’, and through this give an idea of her identity, some sense of the person she was, leaving her mark frozen in time. The curvature of the calligraphy is juxtaposed against the more mechanistic structures of the houses. I explore all kinds of translucent layers including tracing paper and digital manipulation to combining these different elements. The use of tracing paper helps to reflect the idea of faint and distant memories, the more tracing paper layers are added, the more the bottom layer becomes distorted and faded, adding with each layer a further sense of ambiguity. This attribute of tracing paper helps to explore the vagaries of memory, how we sometimes remember with vivid sharpness and at other times we are hazy, this relationship allows for different parts of each layer to peek through, furthering the ambiguity and curiosity of the layering. To most audiences, the figures in the photographs, the houses and maps might be “anonymous and meaningless”, however to a family member or friend, my practice takes on a particular meaning as they can identify and recollect lost memories. The act of cutting into parts of the photographs and drawings allows for a different type of layering, reflecting those memories we can instantly remember, those which need prompting and memories were remember differently each time we think of them. A narrative has been added around some of the photographs within the artist book, for a photo album feel. A conscious choice has been made to lower the saturation of the photographs and create monochromatic work, so to enhance the feel of the past. I consider my viewers to consider their own memories, the intimacy and intricacy of them; pondering about how those memories may overlap with one another as well as other peoples’.