I Forgot to Mention,
ongoing
A self-portrait project reflecting on perimenopause, memory, and embodied change.
I Forgot to Mention is a photobook conceived as a visual letter to my 21-year-old self. Through self-portraiture, personal archive, intimate objects, fragments of text, and elements drawn from nature, the work explores perimenopause as an experience of bodily estrangement, memory, and transformation.
The project begins from a personal experience, but it is not intended to remain only autobiographical. I am interested in how a specific bodily experience can open toward a wider space of recognition, particularly around women's midlife transitions, which are still often silenced, minimized, or reduced to stereotypes.
Rather than illustrating perimenopause directly, the book approaches it through fragmentation, blur, reflection, shadow, and tactile detail, creating a visual language of instability and change.
The sequence moves between body, memory, and natural elements, using both single images and pairings to create shifts in rhythm, echo, and association. Short text fragments appear throughout the book, followed near the end by a longer letter, allowing the emotional and conceptual threads to accumulate gradually rather than be fully explained from the start.
In terms of design, I imagine the book as intimate and tactile, with a restrained material language that supports closeness, reflection, and pause. I am particularly interested in how the book's physical structure can reinforce the themes of vulnerability, delayed recognition, and self-perception.