Constructed Realities
I appreciate the simple moments in life. Like leaking
kitchen sinks that drip rippled circles of water into dirty tea
mugs. Or the way feet play rhythms on old floorboards when walking
down a hallway of a house. Life happens all around us, and to me, is
an expressive visual language. Memories from a childhood are
memories that are sometimes forgotten, but the ones remembered always
remain, and are always re-visited.
I use cameras and sketchbooks as tools to further
investigate the languages of memory and imagination. By using
recycled materials, I allow myself the freedom to re-invent an old or
forgotten memory into a new one. My hope is that by creating these
memories, real or imagined, they can become a familiar (or
unfamiliar) reality that my viewers can somehow discover as their own.