The idea to use these specific images came from late-night scrolling for random listings on eBay under the search guide of “Found Images”. What I found was a plethora of memories belonging to families, friends, coworkers, and lovers of individuals I will never one day know. Their anonymity being commodified online originating from a finite moment taken on Polaroid film. Their identities in comparison to me are completely removed, and they beg the question of “who do they belong to?” This detachment that I have from my own subject matter feels familiar to the detachment I have from my own family and childhood memories. As I project my own stories onto the images, I invite my audience to do the same.
