Brother / Blur

Screenprint on Paper , Varied Edition

Year: 2025

Dimensions: 11 in x 15 in

This series uses four childhood photographs of my brother and I to continue the exploration of how memory slowly distorts as time passes. Three of the photos are digitally altered and halftoned, emphasizing the way early memories lose detail, break apart, or get filled in with imagined textures. By pushing the images through digital manipulation before translatingthem into ink, the work mirrors how memories get filtered through multiple layers (technology, nostalgia, and emotional distance) , each one changing the original image just a little more.

Across the varied edition, shifts in placement create repeating but never identical compositions. These subtle changes echo how the same memory can appear differently each time you revisit it. The halftoned images become stand-ins for the unstable fragments of childhood. Recognizable but softened, pixelated, or partially erased. The fourth photo, printed in CMYK, acts as the closest thing to clarity. Its color separations reference the process of breaking a whole image down into parts, much like how remembering requires pulling a moment apart before trying to put it back together. Even though it is the most vivid print, it still reveals its own constructedness through the visible cyan, magenta, yellow, and black layers, thus reminding the viewer that even our “clearest” memories are built from imperfect pieces.

By collaging these elements together, the work turns printmaking into a metaphor for memory itself. Each print in the edition becomes a slightly different reconstruction of the same shared past, reflecting how two siblings can hold completely different versions of the moments they lived together. Ultimately, the series captures the way childhood memories blur, shift, and distort over time, revealing that the act of remembering is always an act of reprinting.