| Description |
People try to make sense of who they are today by who and what came before them. Using photographic and drawn elements in prints and print installations, I explored the idea of memory in my MF A final exhibition. In each piece, I focus on one; person, or one specific group of people in my life. These prints are monuments to the; people, places, or moments that make up my everyday. Much of the work is low contrast. I use a pale, watery, color scheme, and subtle details to emphasize the ephemeral nature of remembrance. Topographic lines figure prominently; symbolizing the connection in our memories between people and places. Sometimes these lines take their form in sewn thread, which is then used to haphazardly connect each printed person's face to the next. The grid form is often used for its references to community and to solidarity, but also to the way that the repetition of many parts can make the variations between parts (in this case - faces) more apparent to the viewer. Sometimes these grids remain intact, other times, they seem to be disintegrating, much like our recollections. I feel that if I use my work to memorialize the people and places that surround me, they are not completely forgotten. They will not disappear completely, and therefore, neither will I. Although my work is personal, I think that my feelings of loss, regret and longing in relation to other people are universal. War memorials., photo albums, and memoirs, for example, are all evidence of our basic human desire to remember. And in that act of remembering others, we find a place for ourselves. |
