Known Only by What Grew
(2026)
Motherhood is often imagined through beginnings, yet it may be better understood through
what remains. Long after a child has grown, after years have accumulated into memory, traces
of a mother's care continue to surface in ways both visible and unseen.
Known Only by What Grew reflects on the melancholy of this condition. How does one
remember a mother beyond what she has given? Is it possible to separate her from the lives
she shaped, or do the two become inseparable with time? The work lingers in this uncertainty,
where love persists not as a singular event but as a slow and continuous act of becoming.
As years pass, what was once intimate may begin to recede from view. The person herself
grows distant, while the marks of her devotion continue to unfold. What remains is neither
absence nor presence, but something suspended between the two: the quiet realization that
some forms of love become most visible only after their source can no longer be fully seen.