Ephemeral Memories is a luminous, suspended installation featuring intricately etched acrylic panels depicting stylized photographs from across Canada and Toronto. The illuminated images create shifting patterns of light and shadow projected on surrounding surfaces. The installation encourages viewers to notice how environmental conditions move the panels, affecting their clarity. This is symbolic of how external forces, such as time and circumstance, can reshape memories over years or even moments.
By observing this interplay of light and movement, visitors are invited to reflect on their own recollections, contemplating how once-vivid moments can lose sharpness or take on new significance with age. This gentle dance of acrylic and illumination offers a pause to consider the complexity of memory—how it can feel both intensely real and strangely fragile.
Inspired by Lumière’s “Neon Dream: Light and Colour,”
Ephemeral Memories uses vibrant acrylic hues and LEDs to lend each panel a dreaming, electric quality. Their shifting clarity echoes how dreams – so vivid in the moment – often fade upon waking. With each rotation, etched images drift between sharp focus and soft blur, reflecting memory’s ever-changing landscape. Standing beneath Ephemeral Memories, viewers witness how a gentle breeze alters perception – mirroring how life events can shape our histories. This perpetual motion suggests the past may not be entirely fixed. How might these shifting reflections invite us to revisit the memories we carry?
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