I'm obsessed with memory. What and how I remember. How memories and narratives change over time. How memories are shaped to remember the truth and history as we've idealized it, not as it actually transpired. How to document, archive, and share memories. How memories are interpreted. How futures are shaped based upon memories.
Mostly, my work investigates my personal relationship with memories - representing, recording, and documenting portions and aspects of my life as I want to communicate them to the world. Events in my life reduced to coffee stains. Re-purposing metal film canisters based upon the scenes the film it once protected had captured. Recreating documentary images from my work as a photojournalist based upon the elements of the original photos I chose to remember. A documentation of my personal thoughts and observations as I embark upon an unknown adventure.
My work also deals with the public processes of common memory, documentation, remembrance and transmission. How does the fickleness of memory relate to photo-sensitive chemistry as exposure and sensitivity to light is altered? How has a 102-year-old scientific study focusing upon the ultimate repository of memory - the brain - evolved from evidentiary proof to objects d'art? How can sights, smells, experiences be transferred from their temporal location to the gallery? How can we share our experiences with the greater world?
A lot of my inquiries have no definitive answer or solution. But through my investigations, I hope to define a blueprint for the transmissions of memories and stories, creating and engaging my personal narratives based upon my experiences, dreams, thoughts and ideas.