distressed:memories
distressed:memories is my personal labor to document my internal world, i.e. to investigate those things that I know, I have seen but that do not really exist. Many of the photographs are from my dreams. These potentials for creation are actualized when they enter consciousness as images. Photography allows them to graduate from my fantasy & enter the real world. They may even cross over & maybe reveal shared visions: mythology, fairy tales, religious rituals, universal Jungian archetypes.
Cloaked in the accoutrements of an era long past, distressed:memories is also about time. How time is as much an illusion as dreams. In Newtonian physics, time can only move in one direction. In the mind, time can fluctuate back & forth. These photographs are documents. They are proof. They challenge our concept of history too, by combining two realities: antique authority & futuristic novelty. Society draws from so many myths that those of yesteryear can be compared to new ones that inform popular culture. The ambiguity is primal.
