Archival pigment print on fine art paper, signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist on verso.
"Richeille and I are taking a few years to explore the deeply misunderstood phenomenon “Nostalgia”, using it as a source of inspiration. Feelings of sentimental longing, of pleasure and the wistful affection we have for the past or place.
We salvage artifacts of the past for entertainment, to calm present anxieties. We discuss the present in terms of the past, and we judge the present by the standards of long ago. Discussions of movies and television and music tend to begin with the question, “Remember when?” Those words summon happy thoughts. Or perhaps we return to the past because we are expert in it. Nostalgia waxes as the traditional understanding of time wanes. Human beings are temporal creatures. We need ways to understand and to order the past, the present, and the future. Nostalgia, most truly and most meaningfully, is the emotional experience—always momentary, always fragil
