In Past Times, Bella McGoldrick intertwines nostalgia, sensuality, and material culture with her signature hyperreal precision. The work layers a vintage magazine image—evoking mid-century glamour and the gaze of fashion advertising—with delicate lace and the unmistakable pattern of Louis Vuitton. The result is a tension between intimacy and artifice, between what is handmade and what is branded. McGoldrick’s meticulous technique blurs these boundaries, transforming fragments of mass media and luxury iconography into a meditation on femininity, desire, and memory.