My work explores memory through a physical, neurological lens and a subjective, emotional lens. I am moved by recent studies in neuroscience that have shown that memories are altered the more times they are recalled. I find this idea deeply troubling and hard to grapple with, as it suggests that our most precious memories that we often think about are physically being altered by our own recollection.
My work seeks to simultaneously evoke a comforting sense of nostalgia as well as the unsettling obscurity inherent in recollection. I am drawn to using evocative materials, such as porcelain, old photos, beeswax, and thread. Compelled by the eternal battle between remembering and forgetting, I create work in order to embrace the elusive reality of memory.
My work seeks to simultaneously evoke a comforting sense of nostalgia as well as the unsettling obscurity inherent in recollection. I am drawn to using evocative materials, such as porcelain, old photos, beeswax, and thread. Compelled by the eternal battle between remembering and forgetting, I create work in order to embrace the elusive reality of memory.