SYSTEMIC
Installation detail, hand-dyed lithographs
each 7" x 30," 2005 |
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Memory is haphazard, incomplete, and full of blankness, yet it is the way we order and relate to our experience. I am fascinated by this tension between the "finality" of recorded memory and the intrinsic unreliability of that recording, in how our memories are invariably filtered and skewed by how we choose to present them.
Consequently, rather than trying to represent actual events in my prints, I attempt to collect and organize imagery into an object that acts as a reactive archive-- reflecting, distilling, and evoking memory. I hope that these works can be viewed as tools for study and reflection. By its reactive nature printmaking is remarkably well suited to this pursuit; the development of the image remains as a palimpsest in the final piece, making it a reflection of the process of sorting memory itself.
Recently, I've become interested in exaggerating the "accidents" or idiosyncrasies common to reproductive techniques-- the toner streaks that arise in Xeroxes, or the distortions that occur from the camera lens. Much of my work is preoccupied with the reliability and representation of memory, and these distortions raise provocative questions concerning the dependability of technology and its alleged objectivity.
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