مهسا بیگلو-I was once Sisyphus
fragmented frames
This series consists of daily FaceTime screenshots I take with my parents, precisely at 12:30 PM my time and 8 PM Tehran time—just before they go to bed. This ritual has become a way of maintaining intimacy across distance, an act of presence within absence. Each screenshot captures the small gestures, routines, and fleeting exchanges that form the texture of our relationship, reflecting both connection and separation.
Through these images, I explore the emotional terrain of longing, belonging, and displacement, what it means to live a double life between two geographies and two temporalities. Technology becomes both bridge and barrier: a fragile thread of communication that binds us, even as it reminds us of what is lost.
In this handmade series, I navigate my experiences as an immigrant, working through the limitations of means of digital communication with loved ones far across the globe, where a backlit digital screen with spotty/limited/controlled internet access can be the only way that one can express her love to her family.