Die-cutting equipment pierces a landscape that becomes blurred and vanishes. The action of piercing triggers a rupture, perhaps a path between memories and matter. We can neither retain what vanishes nor prevent the memory function from becoming volatile. This rupture may act like a void suspended in space where these transformations gather, and in doing so preserve the capricious link between history and the present time.
During my childhood and youth, I fantasized about imaginary landscapes connected to our family-owned ‘paper’ company. My journey to Finland took me to the true birthplace of these scenes. While capturing these images, a complex network was built between the places I was visiting, the vanishing memories and paper; that substance which the paper company had produced for years. The act of piercing and printing images on paper has produced a transformation that reduced the gap by connecting stories and enabling me to build a bridge between the beginning of my life and the impending loss of my parents.