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Without memory, self and personal identity could not exist. My current work deals with memory formation and retrieval as a layered topography. Through images, both real and imagined, places, text, and gestural forms, a landscape of my past is created. In things i can and can’t remember, twenty-three years of my personal memory are represented within a twenty-three foot panoramic view inside a hexagonal sculptural form. The audience is invited to step into my memory and be surrounded by a narrative that is continuous, weaving fact and fiction, and lacking a beginning or end. In my phantasmagoria, the etched and painted works portray landscapes of unreal places, mythological spots that reference the geography of dreams.
Within the scape of memory even false impressions and personal mythology hold significance as representations of emotional episodes. Personal narratives are much like magical realism, placing autobiographical fact as equally valid as fantastical imaginings. This marvelous reality, in which planes of dreams, fact, and fantasy exist entwined, dwells in an extraordinary and strange inner world. The credibility of one’s personal memory may be both doubted and challenged as personal identity is shaped by what we do and do not remember.
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