Lost to Memory: an MFA Qualifier Solo Exhibition, Spring 2023

Lost to Memory is an investigation of time, materials, and mortality. Time holds us to the universal truth that eventually all things shift, fade, or disappear. At the core of this conceptual body of work is ice and its ability to transform, fracture, obfuscate, record, and vanish. Ice demonstrates the precarity of existence. It represents the inevitability of losing time.

In absence we have only memory. The artworks in this exhibition offer ice as a metaphor for grief. Lost to Memory asks us how we contend with our own impermanence by calling into question natural phenomena which shape our existence.

The works in this show were made using experimental methods and are comprised of video, paper, glass, light, and ice. Opposing forces such as light and darkness, warmth and coldness, fluidity and solidity, need each other in order to give meaning to the other. Hot glass collides with ice, creating mysterious distortions which transcend understanding. Frozen fragments of paper pulp melt and become embedded into large sheets, marking the passage of time into a singular moment. These material interactions poetically demonstrate ephemerality and the residue left behind by these events.