Stone Tape Theory
The Stone Tape theory suggests that traumatic or highly emotional events can be "recorded" or absorbed by physical environments and later replayed as residual hauntings.
This series transforms the paranormal concept of environmental memory into a meditation on abandonment and environmental afterlife. These photographs document the physical evidence of human inhabitation in forsaken spaces: the residue of touch, use, and eventual absence embedded in deteriorating materials. The work inverts the theory's premise, suggesting that in our contemporary moment of relentless demolition and displacement, it is not the dead who haunt buildings, but buildings that preserve the trace of the living who have moved on.