Memoria Comedit Me: Memory Consumes Me examines how re-entering spaces associated with my past identities can reconstruct fragmented memories of selfhood, allowing them to resurface through photographic practice and visual documentation. The process of immersing myself in spaces that I occupied while embodying ambiguous and transient states of identity revealed the pervasive presence that Christianity had throughout my formative years. By juxtaposing images of grandmother’s house and the church where I celebrated my First Communion and Confirmation, examine the complexity of simultaneously embodying multiple undefined and often incompatible identities such as being queer and Catholic. By pairing religious imagery with photographs of myself wearing my grandmother’s dress, I allude to the oppressive conservatism of the Catholic church and how it impacts queer people in both society and the family home. The phrase translating to ‘the zeal for your house consumes me’ is inscribed on the wall in St Mary’s church; centring this image elucidates the all-consuming desire I felt to be accepted within my Catholic school community and family while growing up. While no longer consumed by this desire, I still embody the liminal space of being baptised Catholic while disagreeing with heteropatriarchal ideologies of Christianity. 

Memoria Comedit Me: Memory Consumes Me was shown at RMIT University as a part of my Master of Photography degree and also at TBH Studios in 2024.