Landscape & Memory, 2009

Memories are subject to the passage of time – erosion, movements, faulting, displacement, dispossession, reclamation, and layering.

Layers of unearthing/geological cross-sections allude to the concepts of time and accumulation (natural processes). The angular cutaways of the landplates, suggests our possessive nature through the privatization of land. Cutaways as rectangular shapes represent private realms – property, memory, and space. The division of land and nature fragments our lived experience and ultimately of what we remember of that experience.

As skylots, the land becomes transient and uprooted. Trace elements of human presence may appear on the floating landplates such as a fire hydrant, a boat, or a house. All of these are physical (visual) evidence of situations extracted from their original locations (or contexts).

Like memories, these fragments are removed in time and space from their respective points of origin, giving only small clues to a greater story and complete experience.