"In the grain of memory" explores the materiality of wood as a living archive, one that holds, releases and reshapes fantasy and memory. Its natural warmth, weight, and grain become central to how fantasy and nostalgia take form. The three wooden clocks: a red panda, a humpback whale, and a leopard seal, treat wood as a surface that can be transformed. Painted and coated, their finishes recall the cherished patina of childhood toys, suggesting that memory can be polished, embellished, and even reconstructed. In their gentle whimsy, these creatures collapse time: they point not only to hours but to the tender slowness of days once experienced more innocently. In contrast, the rattan humpback whale remains raw, woven from strips of wood that reveal the material’s pliancy and breath. Leaving it uncoated allows the viewer to encounter wood in its unmediated form, responsive, porous, and close to nature. Its structure suggests a memory that has not yet been fully shaped, held together by strands of recollection still shifting and settling. Through these works, wood becomes a metaphor for the ways we hold onto the past. Carved, painted, woven, or left untouched, each piece reflects a different mode of remembering: from the brightly held memories we tend to preserve, to the fragile ones that remain incomplete. This series ultimately positions wood as a bridge between the imagined and the experienced, a material that, like memory, carries traces of time while inviting new stories to form.