A LONG DIVISION
About the series:
I rarely create portraits, rendering A Long Division an oddity in the overall corpus of my work. An intimately personally meaningful series, A Long Division is a commentary on the fragile nature of memory, perpetually haunted by ghosts of the past that color our present—a meditation on the bittersweet experience of melancholic nostalgia for painful transformations of the human soul. A Long Division also focuses on the way in which place occupies an influential role in the trajectory of one’s life, so much so that it feels burnt into the skin, an indelible scar of nostalgia etched permanently onto bodily topography. This series combines self-portraiture in photography with images taken throughout the Kingdom of Morocco, a country I have inhabited on-and-off for several years, beginning in my early twenties, and which would prove a foundational part of the woman I would become. My experiences there, particularly in 2006, were full of love and loss, mourning and hope—a visceral immersion in the meaning of “sublime:” at once beautiful and terrifying, unforgettable in the most profoundly unforgettable of ways.
A Long Division uses the subtlety of media to comment on the fraught nature of our memories, our pasts, and our selves: human memory, after all, is as fragile as glass and glass, as heavy as iron—shaped by reflection and projection and vividly colored by the untrustworthy illusions of emotions as impossible to pin down as light itself. If we could “go back,” A Long Division asks, would we even want to? Might the weight of such harsh confrontation shatter us into pieces? And yet—we cannot ever really escape from the places that created us, ghosts of past spaces that continue to color our present.
A Long Division uses the subtlety of media to comment on the fraught nature of our memories, our pasts, and our selves: human memory, after all, is as fragile as glass and glass, as heavy as iron—shaped by reflection and projection and vividly colored by the untrustworthy illusions of emotions as impossible to pin down as light itself. If we could “go back,” A Long Division asks, would we even want to? Might the weight of such harsh confrontation shatter us into pieces? And yet—we cannot ever really escape from the places that created us, ghosts of past spaces that continue to color our present.
A Long Division #1
9.5" x 12" x .5" | wood, metal, magnets, acrylic, photography, collage, resin, plexiglass | 2019
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A Long Division #2
12" x 13" x 2" | resin, photography, acrylic, paper, plexiglass, metal, beam clamps | 2019
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A Long Division #3
12" x 12" x 2" | resin, photography, acrylic, paper, plexiglass, metal, beam clamps | 2019
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A Long Division #4
12" x 13" x 2" | resin, photography, acrylic, paper, plexiglass, metal, beam clamps | 2019
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A Long Division #5
12" x 13" x 2" | resin, photography, acrylic, paper, plexiglass, metal, beam clamps | 2019
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