In this photographic series, I wanted to capture ordinary moments and the traces of time they leave behind through the lens of my experience as a mother and daughter of the Greek diaspora. Fragments and stories of the profoundly intimate to the vastly infinite, personal and collective experiences create a constellation of images that moves between tenderness and rupture, play and mourning, stillness and becoming.

Traces is rooted in the belief that memory does not live solely in narrative, but in objects, gestures, landscapes, and the body itself. The work unfolds as a visual meditation on time: cyclical, layered and irregular. Childhood appears as both presence and echo, a threshold where innocence and awareness coexist, and where the world begins to register as something vast, fragile, and impermanent. Threads of the domestic and the elemental intertwine, suggesting that personal history is inseparable from land, ritual, and the forces that shape our world.

Within this constellation, the sacred and the everyday blur. Traces becomes an archive of fleeting encounters and ancestral resonances, an attempt to hold what cannot be held, and to honour the quiet marks left behind by love, loss, endurance, and return.