“Mami, where is your daddy?” was made following the death of my father, who died two weeks after the birth of my first child. He had been waiting to become a grandfather, but never met my son, nor the daughter who was born after.

Using archival photographs of my father alongside images of my children, I began to construct a space in which they might encounter one another. Through photography, I attempt to bridge a gap that cannot be crossed — bringing together two timelines that never physically met.

The work is shaped by a period marked by both grief and new life. Becoming a mother while losing my father created a dissonant emotional landscape, where joy and sorrow existed simultaneously, often in conflict. This was further complicated by postnatal depression, which blurred and intensified these opposing states.

The works do not resolve this tension, but remain within it — holding together presence and absence, beginning and ending, in a space where both coexist.