Artist Statement
My current body of work explores what happens to the systems and structures designed to hold onto memories fail. Memory is a deeply personal, subjective, and fragile concept. And currently, the systems and structures designed to hold that precious information is equally subjective and fragile. While this current creative investigation’s origin story comes from watching my mother’s cognitive decline as dementia won out in the end, it is not an auto-biographical body of work. It is a universally human experience to witness the fleeting nature of how we store our memories; whether it is through watching the trends of technology change from floppy disk to the cloud, or bearing witness to cognitive deficits.
I also create three-dimensional paintings and collage focused on public personas constructed from a variety of lived experiences. How we develop that specific personage is the result of concealing and revealing layers built up over time.
Each work is constructed with a specific figure in mind, both real and fictional. I strip down and build back up each painting’s unique and distinctive story, constructing their narrative within the walls of the paint.
