“Waitress on Channel 3” is a self-portrait born from memory and imagination. Posed like the classic diner waitress from American Graffiti, I stand in my father’s basement near the remnants of his darkroom, holding the little black-and-white TV he once kept there. My lower body fades into monochrome, echoing the era of grainy broadcasts and the way memory itself flickers between clarity and static. The patched wall behind me tells its own story of time, repair, and resilience, while the pose and vintage dress channel both personal history and pop culture iconography. It is a work about nostalgia, inheritance, and how the past transmits itself to us—sometimes in color, sometimes only in black and white.
