Rudimentary Memoirs: Iteration 0.4
2022
Pigment, plaster
The process of making these makes me see the struggle of trying to connect to our past. It is easier to look ahead than to look back. The future can be exciting, can be optimistic, can be terrifying. History already has been. We search for so many ways to position ourselves in these narratives, collectively and as individuals.
It is fascinating to see how we interact with this planet and leave markers for it and for each other across the small spans of our existence. I have been drawn to stone because it is a substance who's relation to us and to the earth is defined by time. Our mountains were the battlefields of seething magma, sites on intense force, but also of beautiful violence.
The relations between our many histories, across civilizations are defined and remembered in the walls. The narratives of the world are etched in stone,and until the world begins to end that is where they will stay. Through cave paintings, monuments, temples, canvases, and websites. We search for avenues to place our marks on the surface of the ball. Upon such structures we imprint our own stories.
