Artworks

Artist Statement | Memories That Never Happened

We remember things that never happened.
Faces we’ve never seen feel familiar.
Emotions rise for people we’ve never met.

Memories That Never Happened is a photographic exploration of the false intimacy of nostalgia. Each image is generated—not captured—through a deliberate collaboration with AI, using it not as a tool, but as a conceptual mirror. The work explores how memory itself is an unreliable narrator, and how identity is often assembled from fragments of myth.

These images do not document real people or real moments, yet they feel undeniably human. They are visual echoes of something half-remembered—tender, mundane, haunting. Domestic rituals. Childhood vulnerability. Familiar solitude. They ask the viewer to question what they know, or think they know, about their own past.

If memory is just a fragmented truth we mistake for the whole, then perhaps all images—whether found, captured, or generated—are simply elegant lies.

This work does not aim to replicate reality. It aims to evoke recognition—to create a space where fiction feels like fact, and where emotional truth outweighs historical accuracy.

In a post-human world, Memories That Never Happened is not about AI. It’s about us.