This project grew out of my experience of growing up in a family and my reflections on how family relationships, memories, and emotional experiences stay with us into adulthood. I turn to the language of still life to speak about things that aren’t always easy to express directly: closeness and distance, the outward appearance of family life, anxiety, memory, and the feeling that sometimes lingers inside, even when everything looks calm on the surface. I collect images of simple, everyday objects and use them as representations of people, memories, and personal stories. Familiar objects become part of a different narrative and gradually take on new meanings. Red runs through the entire project as a recurring motif associated with my mother. It connects blood and family ties, as well as the specific shade of lipstick she wore. At the same time, for me, red is associated with the body and its reactions, with a state of inner alertness.