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Memory reveals inherent layers of complexity that surround reality. I am driven by the idea of a sensory narrative, a story told through what is most emotionally true. Remembering is sensual. Less than scientific, memory points instead toward a different kind of evidence. Objects too have memory. When someone dies that is the end of the story of their relationships, but their spaces and objects live on. Those objects create actions in the larger world.

My work acts as a physical manifestation of the dissonance between what is observable and what is remembered. Arranging familiar objects to explore the distorted role memory has in informing the psyche of an individual, the resulting installations focus the vitality of materials into new narratives, resting in-between collection and emotion—physical forms that reflect a psychological state. In these arrangements, memory objects which don’t make sense as separate parts are brought together to form a complex story which mimics both the sheen and confusion of a dreamscape.