Artist Statement: Movie
For seventeen years, my work has developed through love and relationships, memory and deletion. I documented the people I loved, and whenever a relationship ended, I deleted many of the photographs. Yet the memories and forms that disappeared were repeatedly re-photographed and reconstructed through new lovers or models. As newly created images remained and accumulated, hundreds of thousands of photographs built up over time.
My new work, Movie, begins with this accumulation of time. Just as individual photographs—or frames—are placed in sequence to form a film, I rearrange into small fragments the hundreds of thousands of photographs I have taken and reconstructed, using them to recompose a single scene from my past. In this process, each image becomes a single pixel, and these pixels come together to form a complete scene.
Movie is not an attempt to restore the past as it was. By bringing together fragments scattered across different relationships and periods of time into a single scene, the work explores a cycle in which the past and present repeat and continually remake one another.
