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I am interested in the narrative structures of consciousness and self-identity, particularly ways in which these narratives have an inherent malleability. Often, we are as much defined by what we forget as we are by the experiences we choose to cherish and emphasize; at times we insist on forgetting or suppressing. My work to this point has been focused on looking inward, at physicality or the interiors we inhabit. Photographs and video have been natural reference points for my painting, as we have become dependent on these media as near-replacements for memory, proof of memories, even – it can be argued- as impediments to memory. We use these media to further manipulate, on a daily basis, our narrative of self-identity.
In one series, I am exploring this manipulation expressed physically – in distortions (or omissions) in the human form and in the inhabited interior. Another is a reconstruction of a “lost narrative”: An archive of Polaroid photographs gives stark evidence of a time in my own life from which I suffered a great deal of memory loss. The images are detached from my own experience, and can be used as a recombinant system of visual language. They do not tell a complete story, but rather clutch at the fringes of narrative.
More recently, I have been using video as a means to explore my themes. The videos thus far exist as “sketches”, and are not yet complete works in and of themselves.
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