Memória do Tempo (Time Memory) is a wall installation that intertwines photography and embroidery. The images were taken in the house where I spent my entire childhood and adolescence—its rooms, objects, and old photographs.

The starting point was learning how to embroider, as a way of reconnecting with emotional memories, especially those involving my maternal grandmother, a remarkable figure in my childhood, who embroidered and sewed. Embroidery, as a manual practice, implies a slowing down, and by embroidering photographs I attempt to reconcile past and present, soothing the anxieties and unease that arise from the passage of time.

The images were stitched onto pieces of retro fabrics, forming a kind of patchwork quilt – a visual metaphor for the fragments of life. The embroidery reinterprets the images. The work consists of a set of 30 photographs that are repeated until totaling 81, differentiated only by variations in the embroidery, as a way of representing the many possible paths, stories, and memories.

The project also includes an artist’s book and a selection of 10 photographs, chosen from the 81, which were rephotographed before being stitched onto the fabric base – another layer of time upon time.