Degrades

Everything Eventually Degrades is a triptych exploring the gradual deterioration of a place once filled with life, warmth, and care. Each panel depicts the same house from a different perspective and moment in time, creating the feeling that the home has been encountered by different observers across many years.
The first image presents the house as well maintained and lived in: the landscape is manicured, the window is slightly open, and a curtain moves gently in the breeze. The second reveals the same house years later, after its residents have moved away or passed on. The roof has begun to deteriorate, windows have been boarded up, and the once carefully maintained vegetation has grown wild. In the final image, the house is viewed from above, further removed from the intimate perspective of the earlier panels. The structure has partially collapsed, trees have overtaken portions of the property, and only fragments of the original home remain.
The progression reflects the inevitability of change and decay, but also the traces that remain after people are gone. What was once a home—a place of warmth, joy, and belonging—gradually becomes an abandoned structure, leaving behind only the physical outline of the lives that once occupied it. The work considers memory, time, impermanence, and the ways places can hold the remnants of people long after they have disappeared.