PERSONAL WORK
love is memory
Memories can be both mysterious and live in layers among us and with us. Memories are change agents in context to others memories and in a collective community they become nearly incoherent and somehow comforting at the same time. These objects have become uniform because the objective was an amalgamation of memory that gets drawn out and clarified through the process of remembering, which is enacted with the viewer using the light from the flashlight or a phone to excavate the location of memory.
This work is about listening and being enveloped in the mystery of so many voices. My father and father in law both passed away this year which helped create the initial inspiration for this piece. What we have left from them are both voice clips and objects. These items have become a proxy for a feeling and a moment in time, that while it has passed has a permanence as well. The same is a universal truth for so many of us.
The form of the sculpture is a nod to the forms of the obelisk. In this iteration it begins to collapse among the weight of dismembered objects and memory.
The voices are recordings of elders who attended workshops and brought items of importance to them. The workshops included education on assemblage art, storytelling, questions of participants to one another and writing to determine what they would say for an audio recording accompanying their object. A small proxy sculpture was presented so they could visualize the end product.
