In my printmaking, I am consumed by our temporary experience. We shift in our identity, spaces, possessions, and relationships. By combining photographs collected from the past and present with drawing and printmaking, I create vessels that memorialize moments, lost loved ones, and objects. How does one honor and remember as we grow and change? To aid in my remembering, I lean on photography to capture the “truth.” Photographs jog my memory, while feeding me a false sense of permanence. Screen printing is used to fragment, blur, and distort the imagery, undermining the photographic reference. It allows for reflecting the ephemerality of life and the process of recollection. The printed information is impressed on fabric, a material associated with comfort, security, and warmth. Through the process, I consider the sensation I receive from fabric’s touch, its malleability and flatness, and its power to provide safety in uncertainty. Our mortality, the way we remember and forget, and our interactions with people and objects are embodied in my work: each shift is a transition and commemoration of the previous one.

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Then and Now is a body of photographs exploring the connections I have formed with objects of my past that act as symbols of remembrance today. The left panels consider the past, prominently showing an object of importance that creates a memory. The right panels explore the present, my distance from the initial conception of these moments, and the desire to remember. As I excavate these memories from my mind, the images become a tribute to the objects in an attempt to create permanence in the midst of impermanence.

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