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Frames of Absence

Lauren Rufford

                                                  


My project looks at how memory fades, breaks apart, and gets rebuilt through imagination. Instead of trying to recreate the past exactly, I work with fragments and layers to show how unstable and shifting our memories can be. The images feel both familiar and uneasy, using grainy textures, deep blues, and birds that watch quietly from the edges. The female figure appears as a kind of stand‑in for the body, close but never fully present, while shadows and projections distort her form. Everything sits somewhere between real and imagined, capturing the way memories flicker, blur, and slip away. Overall, the work is about what we try to hold onto, what we lose, and how those gaps shape the way we understand ourselves.