Once Upon a Time, Age of Love is a series of photographic prints produced through a bricolage (assembling) method. The series emerged after a personal experience that I once defined as a major loss. It came into being through my attempt to understand and articulate the mourning I went through: the sense of loss I felt, the unanswered questions left after the end of a relationship, and the emotions that surface when what has gone unnoticed becomes visible—anger, loneliness, grief, silence, and states of suspension that remain unexpressed.

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Although rooted in a personal concern, this body of work is not limited to my own story. It also touches on the stories of women whose experiences have been disregarded by unquestioned assumptions within the collective sphere—stories that have never been recorded or have been only partially acknowledged. Their loves and losses resonate within this series. For this reason, all the images and objects gathered in the works are drawn from my personal archive, which I have built over time.

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The archival elements that form the fragments of this visual narrative are repeatedly reproduced and subjected to various interventions and printing processes, undergoing both physical and organic transformations. This approach is a deliberate method for making visible, on an aesthetic level, how perceptions shaped by melancholy influence how we relate to our past, mourning, loss, memory itself, objects, the world, and ourselves.

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