Untitled Marine Vista #74 Painting

My production of visual images emerges from an inquiry into how common repeated forms influence our understanding of our place and position geographically, chronologically, and historically. My work probes this idea in various ways, but my principal interest begins with meditations on the mechanism of memory and its parallels to the production of images. I investigate how memory behaves as the mechanism for storing and recalling the significance of common and abundant images by utilizing simplified, familiar and repeated elements to act as a stimulus for recollection and contemplation—fixating primarily on the human relationship to the horizon. I establish a framework of rules that would allow me to mimic the mechanism of memory. This process may be seen as not only analogous to human memory, but to digital processes analyzing massive amounts of data. However, I am interested in not only performing the act of recording and storing a memory, but also of recalling and accessing one. Through a process of reconstruction, I produce scenes that not only have been enriched by all places remembered but also simplified by memory’s removal of extraneous details—leaving only the most necessary elements so that these may provoke the viewer into adding additional detail.