Echoes East

That moment when the salad is fresh and the conversation spins to the price of fuel. Or when old men gaze at their powerful engines and shove the human costs to the edges. The diesel’s rumble stirring ancestral connections to working the land. My grandfathers’ labors, dreams both realized and lost, a car driven through the garage’s back wall. These are the experiences that brought these images to life. I combine pictures into one matrix through photomontage. I am interested in the half-seen images and chance juxtapositions that characterize memory and inform our visual experience. Space and time are intimately related in ways that are immediate and personal. My memories of the past always inform my experience in my present space/time. My movement in space presents new and different possibilities for the future. A photograph’s meaning can seem simple in the singular image. When juxtaposed with another image, the two now reflect off each other. Our memory and visual reality blend as our experience expands beyond a singular moment in space and time. My montages formally represent the disorientation and fragmentation of visual experience. They are metaphors for the complex experience of modern industrial/mediated culture.