Link to Video: https://vimeo.com/408217381

Perpetual Absence

Video Installation: projected video onto photographic print. 72” x 41” Archival Inkjet Print. 2020.

Perpetual Absence, part of Unthought Known, addresses the degradation of memories and the mind’s attempt to reconstruct isolated fragments from traumatic memories, only to be subjected to fabrication. The hybridity of the mediums places the viewer into a space of tension between stasis and motion, fixed and temporal, veracity and falsehood. I find this perceptual experience reflective of the experience of trauma itself, a confluence of temporalities that complicates the sense of self, time, and space. A slippage occurs between the past and present, making it difficult to distinguish between what is fiction, and nonfiction, print or projection.