RE COLLECTION / STATEMENT
For the Re Collection series, I rearrange detritus from spaces in transition: discarded wallpaper, wheat-pasted posters, etc. Each image is a memento mori of a space or moment in transition and references the acts of removing, collecting and rearranging; acts repeated as space is redefined. I am interested in the beauty and ephemerality of the details that are discarded. I print the images at 24 x30", making the objects much larger than their actual size, creating a kind of magnifying glass to everyday textures that would not normally be seen.
Each image is printed on Hahnemuhle cotton rag paper.
RESIDUE OF GESTURE SERIES / STATEMENT
The Residue of Gesture Series opens up a narrative of associations left by objects, their possible stories, the still life of things left behind. I have been fascinated by Cabinets of Curiosities (collections made by private individuals and precursors to the modern museum), as ways of collecting objects and arranging them is such a way that the juxtaposition of objects to each other creates a narrative. I am also interested in the accumulation of gestures by humankind and/or nature in objects found.
By isolating each object as an actual-size portrait the object is decontextualized and reinvested with meaning, opening to new narratives. As I find each object I note its location, creating another gesture to continue the narrative. Unseen, as a whole, is place.