"Transference" meets "Schematics: A Love Story"
Life as appearance
Life as a diagram
Life as a dream
Life as a dream
In searching for a way to express the fragility of a memory and re-examing past work, I began overlaying diagrams published in "Schematics: A Love Story" with images from the original "Transference" series • As is often the case when you begin something, simplicity generates complexity and I discovered the pairing of two projects allows a subtle and deep beauty to come forth • Much of my recent work has been about memory. Memory is an imaginative act. Memories don't just happen, they are built. What makes memories precious is the fear of forgetting them. Just like the way these images are made - a process similar to layering together two photographic negatives - memory consists of constructing, and later reconstructing, narratives, not just simply storing and retrieving data* • In disappearance over time and in the remembrance of the forgotten, lies the fullness of feeling, and this ongoing work attempts to expose that paradox.
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* Certain text paraphrased & adapted from the article "Remembrance of Things Lost" by Walter Kirn, New York Times Style Magazine, April 12, 2015