Rachel’s practice explores the interplay between memory, time, and encapsulating the ephemeral nature of lived experience through photography. During this residency, she has delved into the transformative medium of Polaroid emulsion lifts, a process that extracts the photographic emulsion from its backing and fixes it onto diverse surfaces. This act deconstructs the permanence traditionally associated with photography, revealing the fragility and fluidity of memory itself.

Each piece in this body of work challenges how photographs function as vessels of memory. By manipulating and distorting these images, she teases out the raw essence of fleeting moments, evoking the impermanence and malleability of recollection. The emulsion lifts, with their fluid motion and fragmented forms, mimicking the way memories shift and evolve over time, capturing not a static record but the movement and emotion inherent in remembering.