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Artist Statement

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Untitled (Remaining), Belize , 2017.

Further than Memory, Intimate Distances presents an imagining that collapses all of time into one moment. Photographs create an opportunity to consider the way memory veils our perception of the present. The images offer ways to reimagine and reconstruct places and spaces we navigate and exist within every day, releasing us to the infinite multiplicity of less restrictive personal and collective explorations. 

Situated on the boundary between what is and what once was, photography becomes a search for the moments that transform a passing memory into memorial material; what remains is an echo —the notion of a place that is less concrete, of a moment that is temporal and ever-changing.

Individually, images refer to memories that carry with them subtleties of intimacy found in passing moments. But, beyond the beginning and end of each image, there is an unfixed moment; one that continues, creating a connection to another. Through distances, I find relationships to the intimacies present between place —standing at a window looking out at the beyond or floating idle on the sea at the liberty of the tide—and presence.

Beneath the images are gestures of when the moment was greater than the instance in front of me, when the ability to return again expands all the sensations behind the existence of passing time.  The images become a reminder of an aching to be again, artifacts of a moment when nothing was more important than being present.