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Walking Through began during the photographer's walks over a five-year period. The photographs were taken in the area surrounding his parents' home, where he grew up in the North-East of England. Using a combination of analogue photography and text written by the artist, the work unfolds like an extended poem, fluidly shifting between past and present, the external landscape, and the internal self.

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The series considers the nature of memory itself—its elasticity, contradictions, and inevitable distortions. Memories are not fixed; they shift and reshape over time, bending to the needs of the present. They leave us questioning not only what we remember, but why we remember it in a particular way. In this shifting terrain, memory does not merely retrieve the past—it recreates it.

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The act of walking in repetitive loops reflects the cyclical nature of grief, mirroring the recurring patterns of thought and behavior that loss so often imposes. The work serves as a poignant reminder of how our past shapes us and is never truly left behind; it continues to echo within us and the quiet places we return to.

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