The Summons is a series of five photographic collages that grew from the discovery of a telegram recalling my grandfather to the frontline. I never met him, yet this small, official fragment of paper became a point of rupture—pulling the past sharply into the present and setting the narrative of the work in motion.

Constructed from layers of my own photographs, the series unfolds as a visual timeline shaped by memory, trauma, and the persistence of beauty across generations. It begins in a garden that exists between waking and memory, where time does not move forward but gathers. The flowers here are not symbols. They are sentinels. Their colour has not faded. They bloomed then, as they do now. I imagine my great-great-grandmother among them, and later my grandfather before war, touching the same petals, seeing the same hues. Through them, I feel a connection that is physical and real.