This body of work explores the intersections of travel, access, and documentation through the abstract transformation of archived family photographs. What We Lost in the Ocean emerged during the process of digitizing my family’s photographic archive, transferring images from analog prints into digital files. During the scanning process, I noticed unexpected CMYK color smears and digital artifacts appearing across the photographs. Rather than correcting these distortions, I began to explore them as a form of lost translation—a visual language in which information becomes fragmented, altered, or misinterpreted as it travels between mediums. These digital breaks reflect the movement of images across time and space, raising questions about the reliability of documentation and how personal histories shift through the processes of preservation, transmission, and loss.

What we lost in the Ocean 1, 17"x22"

What we lost in the Ocean 2, 17"x22"

What we lost in the Ocean 3, 17"x22"

What we lost in the Ocean 4, 17"x22"

What we lost in the Ocean 7, Wedding Night, 17"x22"

What we lost in the Ocean 8, 17"x22"