Tuesday, June 4, 2013

As time progresses, factual accounts of history are not always preserved from the pollution of personal inaccuracies.  My work deals with this idea through documenting the existence of re-emerging objects from the past within a space.  Through disorienting the space I choose to photograph, I illuminate the void between objects or places and their association to an assumed yet unknown history.  Not only is a connection or disconnection of a set of relationships questioned in my work, the invisibility of a space between time itself is blurred.   I am interested in de-bunking common positions of photography as being a medium concerned with achieving the utmost fidelity with truth telling.  Arranging objects within a given space creates a tension between the viewer’s assumption of the environment having a natural, sublime order and the manipulative role photography has.  By altering the viewer’s perception, I create staged narratives, inducing a loss of certainty and peculiar distortion.  My images of space serve as a visual still suspending the viewer into an expansive space allowing interpretation of the given environment.  My photographs transform cognition of space or recognition of objects into a subtle yet surreal emergence of a past memory instigated by the Freudian theory of triggers.  Mediating between objects of recognition and the uncanny form a new recollected memory.