Temporal Residue

Temporal Residue: A Lament for Lost Time. 2026. Installation and Painting. Various works, ceramic, found objects, video, poetry, electronics, oil paintings. Project Research Art Space, Curtin University.

Temporal Residue: A Lament for Lost Time moves through the folds of memory, where sound, image, and object persist as fragile traces of what drifts away. The work explores time as both material and sensation—how it stretches and gathers across surfaces, gestures, and voices.

Rooted in the quiet ache of maternal nostalgia, the installation seeks to hold what cannot be held: the resonance of a child’s voice, the shifting rhythms of care, the unnoticed moments that accumulate and disperse. Through suspended forms, slow movement, and delicate fragments of sound, Temporal Residue lingers in the spaces between presence and absence, tenderness and loss.

Composed of sound, video, and sculptural fragments, the work unfolds as a conversation between what remains and what transforms—between recording and remembering, silence and repetition. Time becomes porous, allowing memory to shimmer and dissolve, to be felt rather than fixed.

As viewers move through the space, their listening and reflection become part of the work’s rhythm—each encounter forming a new layer of temporal residue. In this unfolding, memory reveals itself as mutable and alive, a living archive shaped by care, perception, and the act of return.