The selected interventions below investigate the punctum as a structuring force within historically and culturally significant images. Through acts of alteration, removal, and reconstruction, they disrupt the elements through which photographs and moving images accumulate meaning, memory, and authority.

The resulting works are not speculative alternatives to the events they depict. Instead, they examine how meaning persists, migrates, or dissolves when an image’s organizing elements are displaced. By altering the relationships through which historical images are understood, the works explore the instability of collective memory and the possibility that new memories may emerge within the space opened by intervention.