After the death of my great-grandmother, I watched her Super-8 films and found that I became frustrated seeing any other people in the films other than her. I digitally edited them out, thus isolating my great-grandmother. The end result is obsessive and eerie, and it speaks to how a loved individual is remembered and the way survivors reinterpret their memories of the deceased.

Once, Again

Memories are elastic, and we often change them to better fit an idea. Whether this new consideration of the memory is to provide comfort, forgot uneasiness or grief, or a product of obsession over something lost, it remains that a reinterpreted memory is often more truthful than the reality of the original physical happening. This ongoing series uses objects associated with memory preservation - photographs, videos, transparent digital editing - to highlight the confusing, emotional, and very human desire to change events of the past to better fit the needs of the present.