digital photos, 2013-2014
As I left my teenage years for young adulthood I felt the need to capture and materialize my memories in hopes that I’ll be able to later reflect on them and in fear that I will never remember them again. This anticipation of remembering the past and fear of forgetting the past is why I constantly took photos throughout my day, everyday, in 2014. Through images I’ve taken with my iPhone, I’m exploiting the social stigma of iPhone usage for photography and attempting to contextualize and date my memories, assuming that smartphone cameras will improve. The overlapping of iPhone images to produce altered compositions is a main component of my pieces as this visually addresses my fear of not being able to clearly remember certain moments while also creating new memories that often hold a romantic air. Similarly, the white and black drawings on the photos influence the flow of the composition which visually represents my feelings on the particular memory or combination of memories. With these pieces, I conjoin my memories and force myself to acknowledge the new ones I’ve produced while remembering the old ones that exist.