Amnesia

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2019
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English
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M.F.A.
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2019
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Indiana University
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Because of childhood trauma much of my work is inspired by photographs. With my work, I am trying to recover and work through memories and piece together the years that are missing from my memory. Finding the how and why behind my brain and my suppressed traumatic memories has been an ongoing search. Growing up in a toxic, alcoholic and abusive filled home environment my brain developed a type of amnesia. It is with this in consideration that I have started to let my work be inspired by personal events. Working towards feeling comfortable with seeking the truths of my childhood I have begun producing autobiographical work. Mining through my mind to find meaning and identify particular reasons behind my behaviors and struggles I have experienced, have become the driving force behind my work. My found-object assemblage sculptural work examines the aspect of identity through the use of aesthetic experience. The use of found objects, remnants of the past allows me to examine my memories, while questioning their validity. The work seeks to engage my audience in recalling a memory of their own that may have shaped their identity.

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