Updated Artist statement

I thought it might be helpful to publish my updated artist statement to give my work some more context!

Without memories, time is immaterial. Only the ideas that are locked in our brains reminds us of how time comes and goes. I believe in the collective conscious, that we all are the same, and that we are all equal. We all have memories that are special to us, but those memories are not quite unique. Just like we all have a brain, skin and bones, we all have the memory of sitting with someone we love, in a special place, at a special time.

How can we have such similar memories if we have different lives? To explore this, I have been using the Google image search feature to upload a photo and search for similar photos. I find photos that are remarkable similar to mine. These photos have the same memories: hugging a friend before prom, a messy baby, taking ballet as a little girl. These images capture the memory in a pictorial form. By showing how many of these images are out there in the world, I show that many people have the same memories I do.

I want to show these images in a lenticular print form. This means that there are many frames in a single image. Using a special lens, the different images can be seen at different angles, so at one angle you see one part of one person’s memory and part of a different person’s memory. Connecting them is the same memory: ballet, or prom, or messy babies.

Work in progress thesis, Spring Semester

My work has been changing. For so long I wanted to layer images, and I have been, but perhaps it's time for a change. What I am doing now is taking photos of my own and inputting them into visual search software to find images that are the same. We have the same memories, we have the same photos.

There are 23 photo groups.

This post includes the gif forms of each group.

Eventually, I will be working with a process called lenticular printing where all the images are put through a program and printed, then covered with a special lens that will make the 2-D image look like an animation. It will be kind of like these gifs, but each image will be viewable at a different angle.

Facebook: text vs. image

How often do we add a caption to the photos we post on Facebook? Is the photo not enough to stand alone? I took all of the photos I have posted on Facebook and superimposed their captions, so they can battle between which is more important: the image or the text?

My Working Thesis

I am continuing on the work that I started last semester for my thesis. In this series, I used photos of my fiancé and I, who grew up in the same decade, in similar social and economic situation.