When living in the present, it is hard to understand the value of what we own in the moment. The most important memory is that of the house you live in. Here, you have breakfast and lunch, fall asleep and wake up in the same bed every day, sliding your fingers on the patterns of the pillowcase, following these patterns.

This series of photos of old, soviet things reminds everyone of their grandmother’s house, interweaving memories through patterns and objects, having the prototype of that house in front of their eyes. However, the series started with renovation in our home and I began to photograph, reconstructing the memory of my home.

By taking pictures of objects I found in different houses, I wove my home, the memories of the house and of myself. I could feel how my house was being transformed unaffected Milena Avetisyan Weaving a Way Home Documentary photography, 2021 — ongoing 59 photographs, digital prints on photo paper by the latest design solutions, but rather by the past woven through the photographs. — Milena Avetisyan