Present in Memory
Although we are all in the present, not everything we see is in the present, nor is our mind in the present. Of the 150 megapixels of our vision, only six megapixels are focused on what is present. The rest of the 144 megapixels of what we think we are seeing is a combination of peripheral cues and recent and past memories. In other words, we are seeing very little of the present and a lot of past memories, some immediate and some distant. What my mind is seeing is mostly not in the immediate present, and my mind uses these images to think about what I will do in the future. So the images that flicker through our minds are also being constantly compared to other memories. These comparisons are partly a process of making sure we move forward safely, but mostly it is about being, achieving and creating.
At all times, my mind is full of images of what is before me, what I have seen and what I might see, a series of montages, not side by side but one on top of another. It is an intense vivid collage. Like the flickering of still images that create a movie, only each flicker is different. The complexity of it is hard to fathom.
My work is about how I hold multiple images in my mind simultaneously. It is an attempt to express on a substrate how the present is more of a collection of memories. This is expressed by using personal images that at first glance appear unrelated but in context with each other express the richness of the unpresent present. To do this, I have used images of important moments of my life, moments often quite distant from each other, images that when merged together intend to express the intense experience of a moment in my mind's eye.
We all inhabit this complexity without really being conscious of just how complex and lightning-fast these images pass through our minds. It all blends together like a movie; we see each moment as the present, but we ignore the flickering that goes on to create this movie, the flickering in the mind. We accept the illusion without questioning it.
The work is printed on cotton paper with pigment inks in limited additions of 20.
Read MoreAt all times, my mind is full of images of what is before me, what I have seen and what I might see, a series of montages, not side by side but one on top of another. It is an intense vivid collage. Like the flickering of still images that create a movie, only each flicker is different. The complexity of it is hard to fathom.
My work is about how I hold multiple images in my mind simultaneously. It is an attempt to express on a substrate how the present is more of a collection of memories. This is expressed by using personal images that at first glance appear unrelated but in context with each other express the richness of the unpresent present. To do this, I have used images of important moments of my life, moments often quite distant from each other, images that when merged together intend to express the intense experience of a moment in my mind's eye.
We all inhabit this complexity without really being conscious of just how complex and lightning-fast these images pass through our minds. It all blends together like a movie; we see each moment as the present, but we ignore the flickering that goes on to create this movie, the flickering in the mind. We accept the illusion without questioning it.
The work is printed on cotton paper with pigment inks in limited additions of 20.
