Filed under: Exhibitions
Filed under: Single-Channel Video
Mummy, Grandpa, and Lear focuses on my mother’s emotional connection to Shakespeare’s King Lear, largely due to the recent decline and death of her own father. The relationship between Cordelia and Lear in the play resonates strongly with my mother as she recites and analyzes the verse. Re-filmed projections on scraps of paper introduce a cast of characters and scenes culled from my archive of familial recordings. The drama of Shakespeare’s masterpiece envelops and infuses her personal trauma, pointing to the enduring universal relevance as well as mainstream nature of the play.
Filed under: Photography
Filed under: Photography
Filed under: Photography
Filed under: Photography
Filed under: Video Installation
A Video/Sound installation that addresses the fragility of memory as daily life becomes increasingly mediated by recording devices that augment, replace, and alter how events are remembered as well as experienced. The tendency to be looking at live events through our cameras or phone cameras is so prevalent, which introduces a negotiation between the way one remembers things in their own mind and how these events are represented through various recorded media. The veracity of memory becomes questionable, as memory is increasingly viewed through a lens that can be re-focused.
Projections illuminate large sheets of paper that are torn, restitched and assembled together in voluminous abstract 3D forms. These video sculptures are in a constant state of motion, fluttering in an artificial wind, highlighting their disjunctive and mutable nature. Monologues that draw on personal stories of those close to me accompany the video. Some are my memories, some are borrowed, some are embellished, some are the truth. As a whole the work points to the malleable nature of our remembrances, where one memory often conceals or alters another.
