Territories of Memory
Territories of Memory is rooted in excavation, of earth, of archive, of what memory chooses to keep and what it quietly lets go. The landscape itself becomes a body: scarred, shaped, and storied, bearing the weight of what has been enacted upon it. Within that landscape, rivers once served as colonial boundaries, lines drawn through living terrain to divide, contain, and claim, and those invisible borders persist, embedded in the ground beneath our feet and in the inherited silences of family history.
From this I ask: what do we want to remember, and what do we choose to forget? This tension between preservation and erasure is made material through pigments sourced from rocks, ground into clay and worked directly onto and into the photographic surface, grounding the work literally in the earth it contemplates. The land and the image become inseparable, the pigment a kind of memory in itself, carried in the ground long before it was carried in a photograph. Extending photography beyond its conventional boundaries, I bring together photography, textiles, and stitching, a layering of methods that mirrors the layering of memory itself, fragile and accumulated, always in the process of becoming.
