"MEMORY SOUP" SOLO EXHIBITION

January 18, 2025 • Photography

Timeless Thrills Gallery is honored to present Memory Soup, a solo exhibition by Bella Bond. Memory Soup offers an intimate glimpse into Bond's life through cyanotype, portraiture, and mixed-media documentation.

Drawing inspiration from their mother’s cherished archive of family photographs—images captured and collected throughout Bond's childhood—their work weaves a narrative of familial love, personal growth, and deep connection. By blending their expertise in photography and cyanotype, Bond highlights the beauty of archiving and the enduring power of family bonds.

Memory Soup invites viewers to rediscover nostalgia and find art in unexpected places—like the forgotten, dust-covered boxes of photos in our garages. Above all, it reminds us to honor our first love: family.

Bella Bond

Bella Bond was profoundly inspired by their mother’s scrapbooks of family photographs and her role as a documentarian. Bella utilized the photos in this archive to better understand their place in their family’s history and to connect with past versions of themself. This exhibition celebrates that reflection.

"Memory Soup" highlights the importance of documenting our lives. While their mother accomplished this through scrapbooking, Bella embraces this role in their own way, blending photos from their mother’s collection with their photos, cyanotype, collage, and pressed flowers.

Bella Bond is a non-binary, queer, documentary film photographer and cyanotype artist living in Berkeley, CA. They embraced cyanotype as a medium because it allows them to transform their photography into a tactile experience that transcends the digital world. They are determined to see their photography worn and lived in, and the physicality that cyanotype brings to their work fuels their creativity and playfulness with every item they print on.