This is a body of work I did for a solo exhibition at Bale Creek Allen Gallery in 2023. My work is about the nature of memory. I'm trying to reconcile the fact that it is an imperfect record and the only true constant in human identity beyond the present moment. We form much of who we are not by what happened but by how we felt it happened, which is beautiful and dangerous. This series specifically is how we gather information for a memory, intentionally or not. It's how images, culture, advertising, belly aches, music, tacos, or bad smells can be the bricks. and the mortar is always emotion, imagination, and fear. I constructed these images as I would a recollection and rendered them with distance and arbitrary definition to make them feel familiar yet indiscernible, like memory.
