SEEN AND NOT SEEN
Years ago, while paging through albums of family photographs, I was struck by the realization that many of the pictures that were bringing back strong memories occurred before I was born, or at times or places I was not present. These memories were vivid, yet were indeed false memories. Fascinated with how many of our recollections can be attributed to a photograph, dream or story as opposed to an actual experience, I began to cull imagery from archives of family photographs and personal work
Seen and Not Seen explores the intersections of personal and collective memories, particularly as they relate to photography, and merges the autobiographical and the universal. Many of my photographs are intensely personal yet speak to a collective experience. As my work has progressed, the lines between experience and invention have become even more diffused.
This series is at once true and fictitious, remembered and reconstructed, seen and not seen.