This work is a part of a photographical series "I had left my home early in the morning", and it features archival family photographs of the artist and her mother, saved after leaving Armenia, composed with dried flowers, gathered in Armenia by the artist.

From the formal analysis, it's interesting why the artist decided to put flowers on her mother's photographs (or maybe they're photographs of other female relatives, because on the fact that it's mother point only the name of the work, but it can be tricky), while leaving her own child photograph uncovered. Is it reflecting the future in her face and the past in faces of her mother? How would it differ, if her mother (or other relatives) were dead? How easily this work would change its perception as memory-connected, but nostalgic, to memorial?

The broader topic, touched by this work (and the whole series even more so) - is immigration and forced immigration in particular, together with USSR collapse, trauma connected with both collapse of the country and immigration, and reflection of next generations on that trauma.

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