I Look for You in the Slippery Edges of my Memory
Miniature photographs of items salvaged from my burned family home, domed magnifying lenses, cherry wood, glass
38” x 5’-5.5” x 10.5”
2023
A console table sized for a home becomes an intimate archive of salvaged artifacts from a family's life. Photographs are a form of recreating and also a sign of absence, as the actual object is not present and what remains is the photo. Photographs, like the objects themselves, are a connection to the past.. I Look for You iin the Slippery Edges of my Memory explores how the objects of our lives hold memories and the distortion inherent in remembering.
Viewers must bend down to look closely into domed magnifiers to view the miniature photographs. As they move the lenses across the glass, the images appear to warp and distort as they are magnified and it is only possible to find a small spot of clarity. This mimics the way we believe we remember clearly the collected items in our memory archive, yet as we try to recall the details we find they are hazy and indistinct and we are only able to distinguish fragmented sections.