Digital_Isolation_Handbook_PDF by the Harris Young Producers

“Memory is a delay.
Memory is a fragment.
Memory is of the body that passed.
Memory is the trace of a wave
goodbye made with a slightly
clenched fist.”
Robert Morris, 1994
How do we read memories?
My practice seeks to explore processes of memory
and remembering, reflecting and drawing ideas from
nostalgic material from my family.
Working with multimedia processes I create
works of abstraction and suggestion set in spaces that
trigger feelings of familiarity in the audience.
The processes of abstract marking, texture built through
layering, and its residual traces, aim to
depict confusion and ambiguity.
I worked in collaboration with my grandfather, using
his equipment, his memories, to create pieces. As his
memory gradually worsened, the work mirrored him;
gradually becoming more deteriorated. Where I can, I
will use materials I have found throughout to make the
work; through reclaiming old furniture, old photographs
and equipment, to using found and weathered material
as the base to the pieces.
These discarded, often forgotten about materials
reinforce themes present throughout my work.
I push materials and work with them in quite unique
ways depicting abstract expression of process and
thought: these are individual depictions or moments
where the audience are invited to apply their collective
memories to the pieces.
The idea of the home has become more prominent as
a place to make work from but also to exhibit in; these
domestic settings reinforce individual memories of
times in my home that create.