{"id":427,"date":"2026-03-12T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/?p=427"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:18:31","slug":"they-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"They left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project type<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Anolog photography<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I took these photographs after the death of my Armenian grandpa, in his apartment, just before he left it. I confronted myself to this horror, and in the refusal of forgetfulness, I took photographs, to imprint his last remnants thoughts, his emblems of solitude. Looking back at these photographs, I see them fleeting away, escaping me. I see the solitude of my grandpa, slowly abandoning himself after the disappearance of my grandmother, leaving his last traces behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b25ccd55 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-ff4b9c61 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-8a368f38 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" 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1061w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-14-1-1415x2048.jpg 1415w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-14-1-scaled.jpg 1769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-7-1-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-7-1-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-7-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-7-1-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-7-1-1536x1061.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mamie-Pepe-They-Left-7-1-2048x1415.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><em>\u00abThere is a poignancy to [the <em>objects of a dead man<\/em>], and also a kind of horror. In themselves, the things mean nothing, like the cooking utensils of some vanished civilization. As they say something to us, standing there not as objects, but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, <\/em><strong><em>emblems of solitude<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2026 \u00bb&nbsp; <\/em><\/p><cite>Paul Auster, <em>The Invention of Solitude<\/em>, p.10<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project type Anolog photography Date 2023 I took these photographs after the death of my Armenian grandpa, in his apartment, just before he left it. I confronted myself to this horror, and in the refusal of forgetfulness, I took photographs, to imprint his last remnants thoughts, his emblems of solitude. Looking back at these photographs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artistic-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}