Flat Pennies & Other Tales

While in everyone’s life there are landmark events that are documented by a camera, (birthdays, weddings, etc), I am intrigued by the unexpected moments, just as memorable, that are not captured by a camera. These undocumented moments can turn into vivid memories that are more fluid then memories associated with photographs because there is nothing anchoring them. As such they are manipulated and edited by our imagination. In response to the fluidity of memory in Flat Pennies & Other Tales I create photographic documents of undocumented moments. I capture a physical snap shot of how those moments are remembered today.

The final images are documents of small-scale sets that I have constructed. The sets are constructed from a mixture of photographs and three-dimension objects. Just like our imagination, the sets weave together different layers of fact and fiction that heighten the drama of the moment. The final images are created when I explore and capture images of the set with my camera, flattening all the layers of information into one document.

To me, a memory is the essence of a moment. It is a reliquary filled with vivid emotions, saturated aesthetics and vague narratives. Flat Pennies & Other Tales are physical documents of undocumented memories giving them an anchor in time.

Title List:

#1: we watched from the field.

#2: we were nostalgic for something that had yet to happen.

#3: the grove. I picked a path I had never taken

#4: flat pennies. I longed to inherit his adventurous spirit (#1)

#5: flat pennies. I longed to inherit his adventurous spirit (#2)

#6: endless. I stared out the window of the Chevelle

#7: then the dawn. (#2)

#8: right before the lights turn on.

#9: I stayed there all day.

#10: it was wishful thinking of her to save it.