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Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been Memory, by definition is "an organisms ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information". How does the human mind construct memories? Even with new advances in the study of the mind and memory many of the mechanisms of such are not well understood. It is thought that specific types of memory are linked to specific parts of the mind, yet we still do not know how the mind makes sense of these disparate elements and arranges them into a single memory. My work is a product of this function, and the architecture of how one's mind "builds" memories. By taking pieces of photographs and drawings, I "build" images, much like the human mind constructs memories from fragments of human experience. Through this process I take disparate elements of my own memory and create new local narratives with new meanings and histories of their own. Through the rearrangement of these personal narratives I hope to present the viewer with a visual product from which they can draw their own conclusions from and relate their own experiences to. |