Artist Statement
My work is the exploration of psychological narratives that capture fragments and recreate moments from my own, my families and strangers memories.
These short personal films layered with those of a stranger’s found on the internet present an immediate and intimate tangible expression of memory. They represent universal themes of memories fractured, distorted with time and the human condition at one of it’s brightest points – childhood. My intention is to evoke an emotional response and connection that resonates with the viewer
My work follows a pluralistic approach to contemporary installation rooted in the tradition of narrative art.
Early experiences and memories from childhood have become the foundation for the development of my visual language.
I intend for these frozen moments of memories to intimately and physically engage the viewer while sharing an honest reaction and experience that everyone can relate to.
“…Every time we remember anything, the neuronal structure of the memory is delicately transformed, a process called reconsolidation…the memory is altered in the absence of the original stimulus, becoming less about what you remember and more about you. So the purely objective memory, the one “true” to the original taste of the Madeleine, is the one memory you will never know. The moment you remember the cookie’s taste is the same moment you forget what it really tasted like.” …Proust presciently anticipated the discovery of memory reconsolidation. For him, memories were like sentences: they were things you never stopped changing…so you could say that our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. If you prevent the memory from changing it ceases to exist. …This is Proust’s guilty secret: we have to misremember something in order to remember it.”
— Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist.
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