A cassette book with poems by my mother and photographs from our family archive, about the house in Kamchatka that stays with you even after moving away.
Original size 3373x2480
My childhood was spent in Kamchatka: volcanoes, snow until spring, black sand, and the ocean wind. My mother, Alena Gayani, wrote poetry throughout that time. When we moved away, Kamchatka remained in her poems and in old family photographs. I wanted to gather all of that into a single object that one could hold.
Original size 1920x1080
The format was determined by the time the images were taken: a cassette. It is «recorded» and rewatched like a memory. Poems became tracks, and the book itself is structured like a tape:
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