Works

Memories

Photographs and installations

Minna Herrala

I started the Memories series after both of my parents had died. It was the year 2012. I was cleaning my home and quite unexpectedly I found a big plastic bag in my closet. I opened it and noticed there were letters addressed to me. The earliest letter was dated 1972. At that time I was eight years old. The last letter had been written by my parents in 1994.

There were letters from my friends, acquaintances, relatives and people I remember only faintly. There were also letters that I had written to my boy at the time he was born.

From the letters I could read my life so far the way they had described it, and my own vision of the time when my child had just been born.