that sentimental feeling
I see photography as a eulogy of memory, with no distinction between fiction and fact. Using photographic images and antique objects, I accentuate the void between my experience and past experience with acrylic transfers and casting methods. Taking pieces of other people’s memories and distorting them raises questions about the seemingly cozy sentimentality of memory and takes nostalgia to a different, more uncanny place. These histories are inevitably fiction, as the photographic moment exists outside of living time. Everyone experiences the poignancy of passing time, even when the forgotten moments aren’t their own.
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