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Monument to HumilityImaginary Monuments
Imaginary Monuments (2022–) is an ongoing photographic series that revolves around the questions: If photographs were monuments, what kind of monuments would they be—and who gets to decide? Traditionally, monuments are tools of collective memory shaped by power, ideology, and consensus. This series challenges that tradition by proposing monuments to the overlooked, the intimate, and the contested—Failure, Class Consciousness, Compassion, Nothingness.
In our everyday lives, we often treat photographs as small personal monuments—fragments of time worth preserving, moments we don’t want to forget. This project extends that impulse into the public and imaginative realm, asking what it means to monumentalize the personal, the spontaneous, or the unresolved.
By naming each image as a "monument," the series playfully asserts the power to define what deserves remembrance, reclaiming narrative authority and creating space for alternative histories and values to be recognized, articulated, and honored.
It is both a playful and political gesture: a refusal to let dominant narratives monopolize memory. By inventing our own monuments, we reclaim the authority to decide what is worth remembering—challenging who gets to write history, and whose stories are preserved.