Memory

Psychology tells us that memory is not as reliable as we would like to believe and that, more often than not, memories lie in the gray area between reality and distortion.

I find it interesting that what makes us who we are is our memory, yet it is unreadable. Each time we access a memory we are not remembering the event or person but our last recollection of the memory and they degrade over time. Memories are, for the most part, imperfect representations of the past that are altered, fragmented, reconstructed and reinterpreted in our minds. These photographic images I have made reference memory in an abstract form. I have taken photographs that have a significant memory for me and abstracted them down to the pixels to fragment the person or event in each one. Although these images are personal to me the abstraction makes them relevant to anyone as a photograph of a memory.