A proposal:

While sharing art in the community is largely important in my work, another artistic goal of mine is to examine the importance of photography and memoir in our culture. Love & the Photograph is a series of scholarship essays, poems, image-text artwork, and memoir anecdotes. These works are inspired by the joys and tragedies that a photographic memento can encompass: a Polaroid of my friend who committed suicide; an exuberant portrait of my father and I, before he passed away from cancer; a significant romantic relationship and the breakup that happened over the Internet; and a found vintage photograph of a man and a woman, the latter whose face has been cut out. In this work, I analyze how photographic mementos have come to function in human society—a keepsake that embodies memory, intimacy, and the remnants of our own mortality. I also confront how the photographic memento changes with the introduction of digital photography and social networks—whether digital mementos hold the same aura and emotional momentum as its analog predecessors.

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To be posted on the blog soon!


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