Memory Stories

  • Exhibition  Statement

    Exhibition Statement

    This installation represents the core myths and stories that are passed orally through generations across cultures and continents. These stories exist in our collective memory. Many of them have been subsumed by religions or subjugated by our romance with science. As these myths and stories disappear, what will replace them?

  • In this work I deliberately push the edge of two-dimensions by using the thinnest of surfaces, Chinese rice paper and fine silk fabric, separating them from the wall and freeing them from the limits of the frame. These materials embody both the vulnerability of myth and its enduring nature. I suspend the scrolls in air, so the images swirl and dance in time and space, or I intertwine them with natural materials to connect them with the beginnings of language.

  • Lair

    Lair

    Mixed media, paper, wood • H 48 x L 42 x W 24

  • Palimpsest

    Palimpsest

    Mixed media, rice paper • 18 x 360

  • Memory String

    Memory String

    Mixed media, rice paper (detail)

  • Memory String

    Memory String

    Mixed media, rice paper • 16 x 612

  • Long Story

    Long Story

    Mixed media, rice paper (detail) • 18 x 600

  • Long Story

    Long Story

    Mixed media, rice paper • 18 x 600

  • Butterflies

    Butterflies

    Mixed media, paper, vines • H 36 x L 42 x W 18

  • There was a man who dreamed

    There was a man who dreamed

    Artist Book (cover detail) • 10 x 14

  • Performance

    Performance

    There was a man who dreamed he was a butterfly. He flew so high when he awoke, he didn't know if he was a man who dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly who dreamed he was a man.

  • Exhibition  Statement
  • Lair
  • Palimpsest
  • Memory String
  • Memory String
  • Long Story
  • Long Story
  • Butterflies
  • There was a man who dreamed
  • Performance