“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.” Walter Benjamin

Memory is both concrete and elusive, while we may have strong memories about certain events, they are in no way an actual concrete record of the past. My drawings are an interpretation and reconfiguration of different objects remembered from my childhood. My process involves the mixing and joining of different memories to create a chimeric effect. Like the mythical creature, the chimera, my drawings are an amalgamation of disparate sources that have been fussed over to create an entity that becomes more than merely a sum of its parts. The image on the paper hovers in a liminal state, existing as a concrete form on the surface of the paper, yet never being able to exist independently, outside of that surface. This in-between existence becomes a mirror for how memory works. The mirroring of memory is thus able to exist on two levels. The first, is how the drawing directly references my own childhood, this can be seen with the architectural allusions to the structure of a house, as well as to the Legos, the Titanic, the airplanes, etc. The second mirroring of memory is evident in the way the surface itself has been drawn. The staticky camouflage marks serve both to simultaneously hide and bring forth these childhood references , mimicking in much the same way, how human memories are both tangible yet at the same time, formless, and elusive.

Link to Flickr for images, sorry for the quality.