Photographs are a form of recreating, they are also in themselves a sign of absence, as the actual object is not present and what remains is the photo. Photographs are a direct connection to the past as evidence of the existence of an object.. These images are miniature in scale, creating a sense of an intimate personal archive. In Elusive Archive I explore the distortion inherent in memory. A home-sized wood console table with a glass-topped case holds photographs of items salvaged from the remains of my burned family home. On the glass top sit four domed magnifying lenses.  Viewers must bend down to look closely into these magnifiers. As they move them across the glass to view the documentary-style photos, the images appear to warp and distort as they are magnified and it is only possible to find a small spot of clarity. This mimics the way we believe we remember clearly the collected items in our memory archive, yet as we try to recall the details we find we are only able to distinguish fragmented sections.