Persistence of Memory

My first solo commercial gallery exhibition in 2012 is when I began really thinking about place, and our memories of places travelled through and lived in. It was there I started my drawer sculptures, a series of ‘portable landscapes’ on wheels.

As a complement to these, I wanted to evoke the process of memory through the action of taking away. 

I did this by reversing the figure/ ground relationship of drawing in this sequence of works on carbon paper. Here, ghostly images are scratched out of the carbon, and revealed by the process of light travelling through the paper, echoing the act of remembering. That sense that the more you focus, the more you remember; the less closely you look, the more it seems to close into the background.