Comprised of related but unique bodies of work that span photography, graphic design, video, and installation, the works that comprise this project are organized by the three main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory: Encoding, Storage, and Recall. Each of the elements highlight the way in which the proliferation of photography and video to the masses has impacted the way we remember. Encoding includes found photographs in which I have erased out most of the background, leaving the photo's subject and a hint of where they are behind. In reducing these photographic images down to their essence, this body of work brings forth ideas about how the photograph has taken the place of memory in a visual culture dominated by images.

The works in Storage stand somewhere in between video and photography as I have taken found home movies on VHS and seeked out the moments in the tapes where the image has degraded due to damage, overuse or age. The digital stills that have come out of these videos astutely make us aware of how duration necessarily impacts memory. Just as the VHS tape, the mechanism used to record these events, degrades over time, so to do the quality of our memories.

The final phase of memory, Recall, is enacted in a two channel video installation in which a window pane suspended in the middle of the room acts as a floating screen between projectors stationed at opposite sides of the room. The two projections act as metaphors for the process of memory by portraying a disjointed narrative in which the lines between what is happening in the present tense and what is a recollection is blurred.

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