Untethered

Pate de Verre, ash from my burned family home, thread, shadows

27 glass frames, installation configuration and dimensions variable.  As shown 7’-8” x 13’ x 41”.

2024


The realm of memory is suspect. Neuroscience studies have shown that memory functions in a fluctuating pattern of continually changing connections between cells which never return to the exact same place.Therefore if we bring up a memory it cannot be recalled exactly the same way repeatedly. We change and recategorize remembrances with each recall and then are left in unclear and distorted territory, left pondering what is reality or imagined alterations.  

From seven sculpted frames, 27 glass iterations were created. Elements of birds, keys, ribbons, trees, flowers, and patterns fade from recognizable into crystallized distortion, or recombine and migrate to other frames, as multiple shadows layer on the wall behind.  

The details of our memories float free of reality, losing clarity or finding their way into recollections of other times and places. Memories morph, creating hybrid remembrances, and frayed connections to our past drift without anchor.

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