Artist Statement

The desire to clear my home of material excess pulls me in one direction while my need to preserve memories of the past pushes me in another. Half a lifetime of living in Latin America and the patched-up, empty homes frequented, clash with the modern experience of living in a country of abundance. I struggle to understand how some people live with so little while I am forever sorting through a glut of objects, all the time considering the impact I make on the world with the items that come into my life. The residue of half-forgotten memories collides with present experience, as my drive to create further compounds the domestic clutter. Mixing materials to generate uncertainty about what is being viewed resembles the warping that can happen as we recollect the past. This assemblage of relics imitate the distortion associated with episodic memory.