Ashes of Then

Think about what brings someone to their current place in life. The memories and the experiences. All of the decisions and feelings that bring us to where we are. The farther back I think, the less I find. Where I expect to find a concrete wall, keeping the memories away, I fund a burned mindscape.

Ashes of Then explores the process of digging into the mind, trying to sift the memories of early childhood that set the foundation for where I am now. Where did they go? Why are they missing? Are they unwanted, or did they disappear to give room for new memories? The edges are burned or gone entirely. The stories I have are only fragments of what I have been told.

Remnants

1”x2”, burned silver gelatin paper, 2024

Born in the Flames

18”x22”, Burned chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Where They Were Made

24”x33”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

What Kept me Warm and Comfy

42”x44”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Self-Sabotage

16”x32”, burned chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Baked

24”x18”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Inaccessible

24”x18”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Unrecognized

24”x18”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

I Can’t Keep Them Together

24”x18”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

(And) I’m Losing Myself Too

24”x18”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Divided

24”x18”, chromoskedasic silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

9 Years

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

May 30th, 2021

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Tattoos

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Unfriended

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Barista

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Society of Photographic Education

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

Of the Last 4 Years

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024

24”x18”, silver gelatin print on wood, 2024