A Solo Presentation at Houseguest, Louisville KY, 2023

This body of work draws upon a cherished collection of photographs of my home garden over several years. These photographs begin as material for completing a series of paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which unravel and stretch those photographed moments as they are manipulated. These gestures are a futile attempt at preservation but elucidate the shape-shifting nature of remembering, forgetting, and the acts in between. What would it feel like if you could pull the past from the mind and hold it? What would it look like? As the body of work progresses, a connection between nature's cycles and memories' lives becomes apparent. Plants and memories grow and decay, both dynamic and dormant, they can bear fruit or invade, but most importantly, as they whither, which they inevitably do, they fertilize the grounds for richer experiences to take place on the site of their decay. In this way, instead of representing a loss, the imperfections or the fading of memories can signify constant progression forward toward new participations, new meanings, and new life.