When I look at old photographs of my family, I often daydream about the relatives I will never meet. Through my art making I take memories from other’s photographs. In exploiting this process, I purge myself of the need to daydream by creating my own experiences with 35 mm family slides I found in my grandmother’s house. By projecting the old photographs onto the 60-year-old home, I intend to show the desire to remember vicariously. Joan Miró wisely remarked, “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” By looking at these images I have created new, life-long memories with the photographs, and with my family.
