'Primera Comunión' is an exploration of memory and the struggle against forgetting – in both conscious and unconscious terms. The context for my politics of memory is living in Australia, having been adopted from Colombia. In 2011, I collected a found VHS home video of a group of girls taking their first communion. I photographed this video and rephotographed it again. 'Primera Comunión' positions transubstantiation as akin to the experience adoption; an imperceptible moment of radical transformation.