Linger is a series of digitally captured floral images rendered deliberately out of focus. These are not flowers as they are, but as they are remembered, soft, imprecise, and partial. The blur becomes a way of speaking about memory: how it holds on, but never quite intact. These images continue a line of inquiry that threads through much of my work. It pushes to understand how memory forms under pressure, how attention to stimuli sharpens or fades with repeated exposure and time, and how emotional experience inscribes itself into perception. However, where earlier projects have often focused on traumatic memory, such as during my own medical training or the pandemic, Linger attends to something quieter: the soft persistence of positive recollection.Each image offers a trace. A suggestion of shape, color, warmth. The presence of something that once mattered, now held at a distance. The work asks what remains when detail fades. Perhaps what is preserved is what matters most, not in accuracy, but in feeling. In Linger, I’m less interested in precision than in impression. Less in what happened, then in how it felt. Memory here is not a record but a residue. It is tender, partial, and still alive.
