I made a map to find you // you became a labyrinth

i made a map to find you // you became a labyrinth

this is when I left/this is when you left

this is when you left/this is when you leave

this is when you leave/this is where you leave

that is where you leave/that is where you left

this is where you left/this is when you left

this is when you leave/this is when I leave

this is when I leave/that is when I leave

I MADE A MAP TO FIND YOU // YOU BECAME A LABYRINTH

Exhibition History

I got 99 problems but a print ain’t one, The Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC (2016)

The method of loci, or the memory palace, is a system for committing instances to memory and recalling them efficiently. In this technique, the subject uses an imagined architecture to place and locate remembered items of desire. It’s a perfect solution for an imperfect cognitive system.

I find a certain level of synchronicity between these memory structures and the process of printmaking itself. Through a labor-obsessive process, the matrix (the printmaking surface, ie: zinc plate, woodblock, monotype surface) becomes an extension of self, holding its own memories as I work more and more into the image, usually over months at a time. The transformation the matrix/surface undergoes over time parallels the degradation and mutation of memory as it confronts the ever on-going present moment.

The intensive practice behind each image becomes a meditation in and of itself. The minimal imagery reflects this meditation, while simultaneously contradicting the excessive process used to create it. Ambiguous architectures in the forms of corners, rooms, and walls emerge and recede, invoking feelings of familiarity, hinting at recollections and previous realities. These vague spaces - memory palaces, if you will - allude to the elusiveness of memory and the precarious mental structures we rely on.