We are left with text. And text is far removed from experience and the author’s memory. There is no more questioning of the source, but only an exploration of these texts; a dissection, an interpretation.

I am intrigued by the link between experience, memory formation and recollection, and the subtlety with which proximity and perspective effect access and perception.

Memory is a paradox. Its process simultaneously erases while it transcribes. Recollection is a field for creating meanings from the information associatively and directly retrieved. Re/collecting, like re/assembling, brings together related and sometimes disparate materials to construct an event. What is created through this process is a re/presentation, in the present, of a past event. By being a representation, the recollection is inherently not the same as its inspired experience. It is the trace of our experience, a notation. This difference allows for an individual's filtering, evaluating, and interpreting. Likewise, forgetting is a fainter trace of the experience in that it is a marker of something forgotten, a memory of loss.

I explore these issues through the use of immersive, interactive and media based structures that implicate the viewer’s own re/collective processes.