Damyan Doumanov
Projects
- Mechanical Morphologies, 2026
- The Fire Garden, 2026
- Pinograms, 2026
- Break Lines, 2026
- Mask, 2025
- Cowboys, 2025
- The Keys to Vacationland, 2025
- The Rainbow Hotel, 2025
The Waves of Time
202396 pages
Hardcover
Edition of 14
Produced in 2023, The Waves of Time is a handcrafted artist’s book that delves into the fragile mechanics of memory through the curation of a deeply personal visual archive. Sourced from the artist’s own collection of photographs documenting distant family seaside vacations, the project carefully sequences imagery from summers long past. By elevating these intimate, domestic glimpses of coastal leisure, the work transcends mere family album aesthetics, transforming a private history into a universal meditation on nostalgia and the impermanence of lived experience. The deliberate, hand-made construction of the book further emphasizes the tactile vulnerability of the memories it preserves.
At its conceptual core, the project investigates the relentless and irrevocable linear progression of time. The physical act of turning the pages—moving sequentially through the visual narrative—mirrors the constant, forward-moving tide, serving as a poignant metaphor for temporal flow. Ultimately, The Waves of Time stands as a bittersweet acknowledgment of a past that can be observed and revered, but never reclaimed.