“Yolanda” is an artist’s book that explores my relationship with my grandmother Yolanda, who, for several years now, has been living with an illness related to memory and time—one that has left her disconnected from the world and from those around her.

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The work unfolds as a metaphor for the passage of time and the fading of memory. Using found photographs from her personal archive, the narrative progresses through her life: from birth, childhood, and adolescence to her married life and present day... where the photographs begin to fade, and new images emerge and disappear, mirroring the rhythm of her life.

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These final images belong to her children and grandchildren, who now share space on the page with memories that no longer exist in Yolanda’s mind.

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The book is bound in fabrics embroidered by Yolanda herself and includes landscape drawings from her youth rendered in colored pencil, along with screen-printed images in varying shades of white ink. All are printed on a creamy, silky paper with high cotton content.

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The work is still in progress...