Memoria, an ongoing photography and sculpture series, is a multidisciplinary pursuit in image-making and in craft. This body of work, initiated as a purely photographic endeavor, highlights and ultimately embraces the unpredictable and experimental results of instant film technology as it evolves and investigates the artist’s own relationship to photography as a personal pursuit.

Memoria at once treats the photograph as an object, documents the artist’s personal experiences, and explores ideas of time and memory as related to imagery and the act of photographing.

Using the first batches of instant dye diffusion film, as released by the Impossible Project, the series exploits the tension that emerges when working with technologies in flux and a highly reactive photographic medium. The photographs, made with the first Impossible Project instant films produced, result in visual impressions that deviate wildly from true-to-life or representational imagery. These accidental images, however, so abstracted, effectively maintain an inventory and record of creative impulse intrinsically tied to the artist’s intuition and memory of experience, time, and place.

Returning to the instant photographs over time, some were deconstructed, separated from their familiar white frames, and cast in resin. Through this sculptural process, select photographs are realized as a multi-dimensional object and presented as a specimens of memory.