Lubbock, TX
Mend, 2008
Tintype
Image size: 2.5 x 4 inches
$300 framed
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Currently my work revolves around the act of storytelling. I interpret stories, retell memories, and interpret narratives I have heard. This act of retelling becomes an oral reference of time and collection. I adore a collection and find comfort in pattern and multiples. As humans, the stories we collect keep connect us all to being alive and experiencing life. I envision this body of work as being a collection of images which reference experience, past, connections, and community.
These works are made with a dry-plate tintype process. I use digital negatives and combine them with a historic photographic process to create images seeped in narratives and story.
The tintype process gives the images a non-sense of time and place. Because of the historic process the images seem like a reference of past but find a space in the reality of contemporary time. I love this position of the images being timeless, floating in a bed of reality, story and reference. They should remind you of something, reference a story, or possibly recall a memory.
They are simply, stories retold.Artist Biography
I am a MFA candidate at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas anticipating graduation this May. I grew up in the high plains of West Texas and icons of this area are abundant in my consciousness and my artworks. I grew up surrounded by the flat horizon line of Texas and enveloped with strong women who have influenced my art and my person. I have worked as a photojournalist, educator, academic, and freelance photographer but find my passion in story and narrative.
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