This project is a meditation on presence and absence, memory and return and the quiet transformations that unfold through motherhood.

After many years living ABROAD, I returned to my motherland, Argentina, carrying with me the distance of time and the memory of the place I had left behind. Yet I returned changed, shaped by years away and by the quiet, profound transformation of becoming a mother. I found myself looking again at a familiar landscape from within a life that had become unfamiliar to me in many ways.

At the center of the work is motherhood and the experience of watching my children grow away from me. Their gradual movement toward independence has made me increasingly aware of my own transformation: I am still myself, yet I am no longer the woman I was.

The photographs inhabit this space between holding and letting go. They are fragments, moments that are already becoming memory. Through them, I explore the parallels between returning to a homeland and returning to oneself, knowing that neither can ever be exactly AS THEY WERE.