Through my practice I examine the fuzzy borderlines between 'experience' and its 'record'. As we all know when we document or record wn event we of course change its meaning, like the story of a holiday told to a friend, once its told and out there that experience has changed forever. And so I would say that the main aim of my practice is to provide a frame for my experiences as a means to examine the act of telling them.
My work often draws upon the symbolic qualities of objects as a means of narrating experience. The reason I employ objects in this way is because objects, unlike people, are endowed with a specific function in the world and so work better as a symbol. People on the other hand, are continually seeking out their own personal function or purpose. It is in this way that through object collages I seek to narrate a self portraite of who I might have been at that specific moment in time.
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