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I
began using the process of working with other people’s
self-portraits some years ago and have developed a body of work
that combines someone else’s self image with my own interpretation
about that image. Recent paintings have evolved from a curiosity
in domestic photography and how we remember people through photographs.
My paintings are informed by the meeting of memory and fantasy.
They are about how we experience memories. Our memories can
sometime be part true and part fiction in that we embellish
the events in our lives often romanticizing our human experience.
In my paintings I have been selectively using domestic photography
from my own snapshot collection and other people’s collections
to create fictional memories. I do this by re-contextualizing
the meaning of the original photograph. Sometimes creating scenes
that are romantically charged by re-photographing the image
in a new setting or creating the setting from my own memories.
The work becomes about yet another memory, the memory capsulated
in the original photograph, the memory of the photographed landscape
and the re-photographed portrait. Through the process of painting,
the painter’s memory gives the work another layer of memory
and experience. There is often the reference to water in my
paintings as I place the photographs near or in water. The water
distorts the photograph itself and distorts the memory symbolically. |
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