ARTIST STATEMENT

Stories are the pillars of the self, revealing who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming — yet they remain intangible, sliding across time and shapeshifting between fact and fiction. In my work, I am primarily concerned with the translation of stories across time, an investigation that has drawn me toward the concept of deep time. While scientists have yet to reach a consensus on what time truly is, some suggest that all time already exists, and that we might be caught in an infinite instant that includes our past and future. Through my photographic collages — slicing and reorganizing slivers of frozen time — I explore how our stories might inhabit the past, present and future simultaneously.

There are three overlapping and converging themes in my art practice:

LIFE CYCLES OF STORIES ACROSS TIME
Storytelling is a technology that we use intuitively as a society, constantly constructing and reconstructing the past to make sense of the present and intuit the future. Culturally held stories often begin as real events, rooted in specific moments and experiences. As they are retold across generations, they often transform, shapeshifting between fact and myth. This evolution is inherent in storytelling, where details are embellished, forgotten, or altered to resonate with the values of different eras. Over time, what was once a concrete reality becomes mythologized. Well-defined, nuanced individuals are reduced into familiar archetypes. Our stories adapt to the inherent blind spots of human memory.

THE UTILITY OF FICTION IN MAKING SENSE OF DIFFICULT EVENTS
Fiction is a powerful tool for processing and understanding complex and traumatic events that might be too overwhelming to confront directly. A horrific event softened through fiction becomes an enduring memory rendered safe for all, even for children.

THE NATURE OF TIME
In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in how we tell stories about the future. Time is a concept that has perplexed philosophers, scientists, and thinkers across cultures and epochs — spacetime exists all around us. Though time appears to us as relentlessly linear, my work is engaged in portraying time as collapsible and navigable.