If You Forget Who You Are, Remember Where You Came From
This drawing is a slef portrait that is a linear chronological narrative representative of certain era’s of my life, beginning at my birth. I explore the representation of memories through blind contour drawings from photographs from my childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. The blind contour functions just enough to represent the original image in order to read a narrative, but obscures the images as to not be read as me personally. Their is an uncanny recognizable quality in blind contour drawings. They still keep there ambiguities while giving a bit to the original source. This parallels the concept of a memory as being both cognitive of a time, but constructed. How much of what we remember is truth? How much of it is constructed?
Compositionally, he drawings move through different types of papers, all chosen because of their tactility which triggered certain memories for me. Each paper reminds me of different time, and by projecting the blind contour through these different papers, parts of my life are represented, which are not strictly realistic, but more ambiguous. Its about where I think I came from, and instead of locking the representation of my memory down to a realistic portrayal, the work is allowed to be more open for viewer and for myself.