'artist statement'

lost and found

when we remember, we unknowingly alter the memory. my art practice is about the (unintentional) manipulation of memory as it is repeated-- the malleability of the act of remembering. my practice is based in found photographs-- images of moments that at one point were important enough to capture on film, that somehow were misplaced, and made their way to me. with each photograph I create a vehicle for memory through time-- bergson calls this the 'duration' (of memory) between the present (which is actual and real) and the past (which is virtual and real.) I call on these images to enact several points in time: the time it was made, the time it was lost, the time it was found, the time it was repurposed, and the time it is seen (by others.)


every time a memory is remembered, it travels further and further away from the time in which it happened. each time we remember, the memory is subject to malleability due to changed emotions and perceptions of the rememberer at the time of the remembrance.




we ought to forget everything all at once, for every time a memory is remembered it is reremembered or misremembered or disremembered until we don't know if we are thinking of the experience or the rememory or the mismemory or the unmemory.