Memories
Memories constantly change, just as we as individuals change. We reflect on our past with an ever-evolving understanding. Through the aid of photos our memory broadens.
However, one might argue those photographic glimpses are tainted by means of paring down and cause confusion of the truth. A photo weighs heavy with a visual untruth that doesn’t represent the entirety of actual events or emotions. Thus these altered glimpses into the past can lead to further separation from that past and from our actual memory.
All of this is present in the work, The First Supper, and the Baby Photos. It involves a dialogue with my childhood photos and the lack of memories that I have of that time. I have created my own stories from these photos, of those memories, by covering up and adding to them. This perpetuates personal myths of what happened, and who people were before I can remember. It acts in a sense as the destruction of and further development of my past through present understanding.
These two bodies of work have afforded myself further exploration into my personal memories and narratives, both truthful and fictitious.
In the series, A Path in the Woods, A supernatural narrative is implied through whimsical decoration.