ADD | MIX | FOLD

This work is about memory, and the stories we tell ourselves. Using photography, collage, and thread I create a visual memoir of growing up in the South in the Sixties, to re-examine the culture of historical segregation, expectations of womanhood, and a complicated relationship to place and home.

Add|Mix|Fold is inspired by a family pound cake recipe, and a metaphor for how stories are mixed and folded into memory to make sense of our current lives. As a Southerner, we also ‘sift’ through the legacy that we inherited, paradoxical in both beauty and violence, to decide what to hold onto, and what to let go. Like these art objects, memory itself is constantly being assembled and collaged, a quilt of fact and fiction that we wrap ourselves in.

The work is intentionally tactile, handcrafted, undeniably human, pushing back on the ephemeral nature of today’s digital and synthetic imagery. These pieces are one of a kind.