REVISITED
For a decade, I returned to places from my youth—places held in memory as familiar landscapes of comfort and time. I returned expecting to recognize something of myself in them. Instead, I found that the places had changed, and so had I.
Upon my last visit, I discovered that the old neighborhoods had been demolished and replaced by new apartment complexes. Streets, buildings, and familiar surroundings that once carried traces of my childhood had disappeared. What remained was not the place itself, but the memory I had carried with me.
Through photography, I revisit these transformed landscapes, searching for fragments of what once was. The photographs exist between memory and reality, between the places I remember and the places I encounter now. Their quiet disconnection reflects my own distance from a past that can no longer be physically recovered.
Revisited is not an attempt to reconstruct the past, but to acknowledge its disappearance. In returning, I discover that memory can preserve a place even after it is gone—yet it cannot return me to the person I once was there.
