The accomplice witness has been silent for decades, resigned to obscurity and oblivion. The times it has been brought to light it has been to give it a breath of fresh air, to play at what time has taken away or to recall those times when everything was yet to come, when beauty was youth itself. Olga, she wore her gala dress. She wore her youth, she wore her gaze. Now, the echoes of the past are running the veil of the mirror where the dress once looked...the glass is dark.

"The photobook reflects on the canons of beauty, the passage of time, cultural changes, beauty pageants and the use of the photographic archive. From an album preserved with newspaper clippings and photos of my mother (who was a beauty queen in 1973), I re-photograph, modify and intervene the images with her jewellery and objects as a metaphor that retouches the past. The album is complemented with present-day photographs that show the wear and tear on the body, the dress and the objects.