Susurri Spei [Whispers of Hope] (2023-2024) is a visual memoir shaped by the emotional legacy of growing up with parental alcoholism. It began as a quiet attempt to make sense of something that resists language: a personal search through silence, memory, and the hidden weight carried by many Adult Children of Alcoholics. In learning I wasn’t alone, the work shifted from isolation to connection not in answers, but in shared emotional terrain.

The book is hand-bound, intimate, assembled from analogue photographs, family archives and fragments of my childhood diaries. It moves without clear chronology, echoing how memory lives in the body: nonlinear, repetitive, unresolved. I use slow, tactile processes: alternative printing, collage, assemblage as a way of holding space for what can’t be neatly told.

This is not a document of the past, but a quiet gesture toward hope, whether found in the past, present, or imagined future. Susurri Spei explores how we carry inherited pain and whether it can be softened through acts of tenderness, attention, and care. It’s a practice of remembering differently not to forget, but to live with greater gentleness.