Portfolio Category - LCEA 2013

By photographing hand-constructed paper dioramas, the artist utilizes escapism as a form of confrontation – giving abstract memories form and addressing physical limitations. These ideas and emotional responses materialize through sculptural, fantastical sets that also provide a stage for personal escape, universal ambiance and narrative that attempt to control uncontrollable facets of human life such as the nature of disease (arthritis and Alzheimer's), loss (functionality and remembrance) and the emotions therein. Simple materials such as paper and various paper products are used to construct these complex, layered metaphors. The act of tea staining the final print represents an immediate aging of each of these reconstructed memories.