Memory Failures II

Transience, a type of memory failure, is the degrading of memories with the passing of time. Using vintage images these pieces cover parts of their narrative with a gold leaf box censor, challenging memory and replacing it with a reflection of our own altered and disappearing memories exposing our mortality.  These images act as a compilation of memories, an impression that something never happened, like it was dropped into a Orwellian memory hole.  Similar to John Stezaker’s Tabula Rasa series, I have removed the narrative focus of the images, asking the viewer to imagine what lies behind the gold leaf collaged on top.  However, my pieces are not cut from vintage film stills, but from found and family photographs that struck me pictorially compelling.