Nouvel Vie (New Life)

In Nouvel Vie (New Life), Polaroid photographs are dissolved into something more fragile and tactile. The emulsions are loosened and peeled away from their backing in water, then floated onto watercolor paper resting on floral tissue, and finally placed in pink frames. The process leaves behind creases, tears, and soft distortions, so each image feels like a memory that has been held, moved, and reshaped by hand. 

This work came out of a new period of growth and noticing how the spaces around me had quietly changed—how they carried both who I was and who I am becoming. The polaroids are soft, hazy, and imperfect; they feel like memories that are still developing. Using light and composition as my main tools, I approach each image as a way to stay present with my own experience of growing up, starting over, and learning to see my everyday surroundings as enough. This work is an attempt to honor the gentle, complicated process of moving into a new version of myself where transformation doesn’t announce itself, but quietly settles in. I’m interested in how softness, stillness, and domestic space can hold big emotions such as grief, hope, exhaustion, renewal. 

By pairing this delicate, hands-on process with intimate, everyday scenes, Nouvel Vie reflects how a new life is built from what already exists: our rooms, our routines, our inherited words, and our own small acts of making. The series invites viewers to linger with the sweetness, vulnerability, and quiet hope that lives inside these modest moments of becoming.