In the pork of love

Sentimentality explores memory as a liminal space—one that exists in the haze of dreaminess, neither fully real nor entirely imagined. The work lingers in the emotional periphery of urban isolation, where the edges of the city blur into forgotten landscapes. Here, the protagonist drifts through fragmented recollections of parents and family, their presence felt more as echoes than as solid forms. These memories are tinged with longing, yet remain just out of reach, mirroring the dislocation of social belonging.

 

The narrative weaves through themes of rootlessness and quiet alienation, where identity is shaped not by clear markers of status or place, but by absence—the absence of connection, the absence of home, the absence of a fixed position in the world. The urban fringe becomes both a physical and psychological space, a nowhere zone where the past lingers like a half-remembered dream.

 

Through its wandering gaze, the work asks: What does it mean to remember when memory itself is unreliable? How does one navigate belonging in a world that offers no stable ground?