Connective Tissue: The Leftover, the Lovers, and Me forms an immersive pool of memory that reflects, celebrates and commemorates adolescence. The work investigates connections, relationships and personal narrative by entwining photographs with text to portray the complexities of youth in a material form.

Nova is influenced by documentary photographers such as Nan Goldin through the creation of an unflinching emotional archive which captures a tender blur between the public and private. Her fragments of memory evoke collective narratives of youth and create a space for nostalgic contemplation. Nova chemically distorts her film using substances such as alcohol to embody the idea of fleeting moments with uncertain outcomes never occurring the same way twice, intertwined with ephemeral projected images. This process extracts and expands on the emotions in her photographs.
 

Nova’s work holds a tenderness towards the beautiful and broken in an unpolished, intimate visual diary that self-actualises and illustrates her hunger to understand and experience life in its entirety.