Artist Statement:
These images are from Because It’s There, a project largely inspired by Gertrude Stein and her ideas about insistence. For it, I experimented with process using two source photographs: one found; one my own; and also their by-products, to parallel how memories are constructed. This involved hand-coding, cutting, and layering small pieces of these photographs, and then, after combining variations of parts from all layers, they were re-photographed to make new photographs. Like people, memories are comprised of puzzle-like pieces that require putting together, but not every piece fits perfectly, and often, pieces are missing. How we fill that empty space is a universal exercise, but unique to each of us. And, like photographs, what are people, as well as their memories, besides originals being continuously transmuted from their present states?
a collaboration with Howard Greenberg
