What Remains is a hand-painted watercolour animation based on memories of attending family funerals throughout different stages of my childhood and adolescence. The project draws from personal experiences of traditional rural funeral rituals, including mourning ceremonies, symbolic gestures, and the emotional atmosphere surrounding death within family and community.

Growing up, I often found myself emotionally distant from the people who had passed away, yet deeply affected by the rituals, expectations, and emotions surrounding those events. What stayed with me were not only the funerals themselves, but the lingering feelings afterwards — the silence, repetition, discomfort, and the strange awareness that something had permanently disappeared.

Through fragmented narration, ritual imagery, and layered watercolour animation, I wanted to explore grief not as a singular emotional moment, but as something that quietly remains within memory, inherited ritual, and the body. By combining hand-painted textures with reflective voice-over narration, I aimed to create a visual experience that feels intimate, dreamlike, and emotionally unresolved.