Memories are fragile and ephemeral. With the slightest effort memory can be altered, blocked, or forgotten all together. Photography acts as a time capsule, locking a moment in a perpetual state of unaltered fact. I seek to alter and combine these moments my mother has collected over the last forty years, well before my birth, and into my childhood. These images inpart a façade of emotions, masking the initial feelings many of which I have all but forgotten.
Using the prints and negatives, acquired from my mother, as source material I extracted from the past to create new moments and new futures that will then combine with three dimensional components to tell an invented narrative. The narratives created are unrealistic and a hodgepodge of emotions and memories, creating a visual scrapbook open to interpretation by all.
The use of boxes varying in size and depth is used to convey a sense of time and importance. These images also vary in clarity just like ones memories, some are clear and some pieced together with some thought. Transparency in what one remembers creates a void that one fills in, much like a scrapbook, embellishing a space that is empty. My realization of my inability to recall memories from my adolescence has led to a further exploration of invented narratives and recalled memories.
