Artist Statement

Do you remember the time friends and you were making disgusting concoctions to eat? Throwing all the foods you liked together into one giant bowl to consume in one sitting?

My work contemplates memory through whatever medium that feel necessary. In some works, it shows how I think about memory, a gallery of impressions that inhabits a space within my mind that I stroll through on occasion, but the hall is empty in the end. Devoid of life. Another way I think about memory in my work is as something we select from, picking and sharing bits that may benefit us in the moment. Memories that have been buried and forgotten often pop up during conversation. Throughout these different modes of thinking, I ruminate over the role of the artist in this process of making. The act of making is essentially rewriting a memory. So that when I go back to think of the time, I begin to think about the act of making as opposed to the actual memory.

While there is an urge to leave these memories be, but there is bigger part of me that wants to recall these memories to keep them present in my life and to hold onto them in a physical form.