In Unraveling Light and Time, photographers Pamela Zaremba and Síle Marrinan explore how light within a place can reawaken childhood memories and reveal how family is not fixed, but layered, revised, and reimagined over time. Through varied photographic techniques and the inclusion of personal family artifacts, the artists investigate the tension between emotional memory and historical record. Together, their works become stepping stones into the echoes of childhood—spaces where fact and feeling coexist, and meaning is continuously remade.

 About the artists

Pamela Zaremba is a storyteller and an analyst of conscious and unconscious human nature. The world, from her perspective, is a conglomerate of all she has learned, becoming a mixture of fantastic theories from fairytales and the sobering awe of nature and reason. In her photographs, she tries to capture this curious perspective by investigating peculiar places and objects—from abandoned buildings to dead creatures. Her goal is to distill the human and sympathetic qualities from these subjects so others may see life as she sees it.

Síle Marrinan is a photographic artist drawn to the subtle, ethereal qualities of light. Her work explores the relationship between light, memory, and the passing of time. Through her camera, Marrinan observes how shifting light transforms familiar subjects, inviting new ways of seeing and evoking connections to memory and family. By seeking out moments where light lingers or transforms the ordinary into something almost cinematic, she finds a rhythm that slows time, allowing moments to become steeped in memory and linked across time.