How To Forget was born from a need to give tangible form to the psychic residue left behind by a life lived. Through the use of silk-screening of red clay mud onto ink-jet photographs, archival textiles, and site-specific installations, I attempt to tie and/or divorce myself from my own and my family’s extended history and examine the function of memory within the dynamics of the archive. How To Forget takes a non-linear, non-chronological approach to this examination, compressing decades of time and space through the manipulation of the archive and my own self-portraiture, designed specifically to deny myself from its record. In this work, I explore life-altering experiences and photographs, question my rights to make family history-changing assertions, and ultimately embrace the probability of losing these connections in exchange for personal freedom.
Created for Jesse Hoyle’s MFA Thesis Exhibition hosted at The Anderson in 2024.
Installation Views
Thunder Mountain Archival Photograph (2024)
Inkjet print, red clay mud, 40” x 26”
REDACTED(2024)
Analog photograph, sharpie, 30” x 30”
Foundation Archival Photograph (2024)
Inkjet print, red clay mud, 30” x 21”