When The Night Comes
Created during a month-long residency at P3Studio at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in cooperation with Art Production Fund.
During a month-long residency at P3Studio at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in cooperation with Art Production Fund, I created an installation that explored the complexity of memory and how it deteriorates over time. Every time your brain recall's a memory, it’s remembering the last time it recalled it. Continually corrupting and altering the original experience.
I combined overlooked objects, including slide projectors, found and family negatives, mylar, and fans, to create a lucid mindscape. Over the course of the residency, I slowly altered the projections each day so the experience would never be the same twice.
The studio was divided into the installation and a workspace to spark a conversation with guests. Participants were encouraged to create a small collage based on personal memory, using found images and personal images they could print onsite. I would then take a scan and create two pins, one they kept and one which was added to a larger piece focused on combining memories.
As part of the ongoing exploration of memory and how the mind worked, I created a series of images using the slides from my installation. Treating them as studies, I used various means of manipulation, including burning and distorting the projections using walls and other three-dimensional surfaces.
Selected Bibliography:
Totten, Kristy "An Unforgettable 'Mindscape" Las Vegas Weekly, November 19, 2015
Wasser, Fred "State of Nevada " KNPR Radio Station, November 11, 2015
Dickensheets, Scott "2015 Fall Culture Guide: Ones to Watch" Desert Companion, August 28, 2015