Photographs hold secrets like our memories do. In the hushed space of solitude, I can hear them. Those invisible threads that connect to the before are frayed with time. Yet, deep inside my brain safely detached from ownership lives memories and secrets. Seeing helps me remember. Place begins. The familiarity of spaces form with the fluidity of the paper. Familiar shapes and patterns show me a path. I see where I walk, play, and discover. Even when I pretend memories are not mine, they creep into my space and whisper. Every photograph has secrets bouncing in the form and fluidity of the paper. 

Permanence is an illusion. Ih homage to the fragility of our memories, I arrange and  rearrange the paper structures after each session. Manipulating the white paper creased and folded, I create abstract arrangements to mimic places I see in my memories. These sculptural structures are taped, dampened with water, manipulated, and layered. Each sheet placement has its purpose. The positive and negative spaces dance, intertwined like lovers. The connections speaks between the paper form, the space, and time.

When I perform studio on site, conceptually I take this newly formed union and challenge the unseen connections within the photograph. Our surroundings, our spaces define more pieces of ourselves. This conceptual approach is a quest to capture not only the form and layers of design, but of the unseen energetic fields that threads human connection. Timeless, these threads of connection are shared memories, experiences with those who have come before us and those that have been witness with us. Seeing Memories is representative of our shared memories in cultural heritage, family histories, and abandoned places.