“loss drives the impulse to record and remember” Lisa Saltzman

My work explores themes of absence and loss, areas of blank canvas imply gaps in memory and negative spaces are used to breathe and imagine. There’s a sense of searching for memory, trying to record and retain what is there or what is gone and an anxiety in the present, noticing small everyday moments. I’m interested in fragments of memory similar to the way we record it digitally. Error in memory links to glitches in photography and the mediation of images through the lens flattens and abstracts. These become the starting point for a painting.

Memory is also explored through the materiality of paint, evoking association through recognition processes, making paint represent reflections. Sometimes literal mirrors and windows or surfaces of dirt and condensation on glass for example, pin down the overall ambiguous image to create a between world. Cropping and obscuring is used to create curiosity outside the picture frame and the secrets under the blocked out paint.

The moments I capture are of everyday phenomena from a specific perspective. I try to draw attention to the beauty in the banal, installing in the corner of the room to draw on this idea. The preservation of fleeting moments obtain an overall elusive and ungraspable outcome, painting itself a collation of unrepeatable instances, marks and moments. My drive to create the work being the uncontrollable passing of time, the process of trying to preserve and hold on to. Each painting is a fragment that as a whole builds on a melancholic atmosphere.