Defining Moments
2011, 2012, 2022
Defining Moments explores how memories are formed, recalled, and visualized. The artist’s portraits of passed family members convey the loss of information over time and the resuting encapsulation of our experiences with a loved one into a single surviving image. This work, then, delves into the mythic aspects of generational storytelling, the formative role of nostalgia, and the fallibility of collective memory.
Constructed from both memory and old photos, these endearing portraits capture a hazy remembrance, symbolic yet elusive in its commemoration. As the recollection of these role models fade, I want to embrace them as heroes that have as much or more to do with the development of my identity as any idol that I admired as a child.”
Defining Moments explores how memories are formed, recalled, and visualized. The artist’s portraits of passed family members convey the loss of information over time and the resuting encapsulation of our experiences with a loved one into a single surviving image. This work, then, delves into the mythic aspects of generational storytelling, the formative role of nostalgia, and the fallibility of collective memory.
Constructed from both memory and old photos, these endearing portraits capture a hazy remembrance, symbolic yet elusive in its commemoration. As the recollection of these role models fade, I want to embrace them as heroes that have as much or more to do with the development of my identity as any idol that I admired as a child.”