Artist Statement:

Since our lives are made up of finite time, the way that time is spent, accumulated, or valued is important.  Time between work, eating, sleeping, and tending to responsibilities- is often not recorded. Although this time is often viewed as insignificant, it can house our thoughts, our dreams, and the day-to-day moments that become a large portion of our lives and identities. If we look back and remember nothing of these periods, then what of this time and of ourselves has been lost? Trying to recall moments that have not been recorded in our memories results in questions, silence, traces or a vague idea of what has passed. In my work I aim to make this time and these traces visible

My multi-media sculptures and installations are rooted in the domestic because this personal space is closely associated with leisure time and with the identity of an individual. The home is where we store our personal histories: photo albums, heirlooms, souvenirs, and other objects that elicit memories. Basing the work in this space further emphasizes the lack of recorded memories. I unmake, isolate, and attack the objects and the stability of the domestic space in which time passes without notice. By removing the common functionality of the domestic space and recording the time within the space by unraveling, binding, and marking, I give room for contemplation of our actions, moments, and memories within its walls.

In this work, layers of visible time are apparent through the physical trace of time-consuming actions. These actions are done by hand because the accumulation of time depends on its intentional use and an individual’s involvement brings the lack of recorded memory into focus. It is in the details of this handwork that traces of different moments are evident. Jennifer Gonzalez writes about traces and an understanding of time in her essay Autotopographies: “Although the trace remains, the world from which it came is absent. The trace thus has the unique ability to represent time as neither past nor present but as both simultaneously”. As I leave the trace of my actions, I intend to make this spent time understood as it pertains to the present. Throughout the work, it is physically implied that the actions will continue; therefore extending Gonzalez’s ideas of simultaneous understandings of time to also include the future. For me, visible traces allude to a struggle to remember the time that is spent and the time that will be spent.