My work is autobiographical and oftentimes deal with themes of absence, memory, temporality, the passage of time, and loss. My artistic process starts with identifying my sources; I pull my inspiration from family photo albums dating back to the 1930’s through present day. I then makes photocopies of the pictures and physically cut out pieces of the image to strip it of it’s details, which speaks to absence, the mortality of people/places, and the fleetingness of memories. With some prints, I incorporate excerpts from old family letters through using ink pen or hand sewing. I end my process by transferring the scraps onto a new piece of paper using lacquer thinner, or gel medium. By doing this process, the prints become immensely abstracted from their original start as a photograph, which show the inconsistent but ephemeral side of our memories, while still honoring the past.
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