My practice is concerned with the formation and recollection of memory and its vulnerabilities. In examining the relationship between sensory perception, awareness and memory, my work seeks to understand which details of our experiences are significant and are selected to be committed to memory for later recall.

I apply a broad spectrum of processes to the details and abstract them to form an emotional response rather than a literal interpretation. I’m fascinated with the properties of materials and the qualia of memory, that is the subjective and personal reading and emotions attached to an experience, often using a material’s inherent qualities to reference an element of a memory.

In my latest series of works, Memory Skeletons, I apply a structured approach to translation using mixed media and deconstructed memories. A Memory Skeleton is my term for a core set of details that I define to be the bones of an experience which are consistent and prominent in a person’s retelling of the same memory. Through the questioning of the mind’s eyes of people, I find the important elements within their experiences, and identify the Memory Skeletons of their episodic memories. Dissecting these experiences into elements, I draw upon the properties of a variety of materials to represent or evoke them, using processes which distance the materials from their origins.  Via an exploration of forms and materials I hope to make the experience available to adaptation and adoption by the viewer.