Lobotomized Memories
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful”
-Sigmund Freud
Nostalgia wears a distinctly utopian face, while banality bares ubiquity. Photographs transform the pathological into a historical archive. In delineating the lived experience of one, one can tap into the collective memory of many by focusing on abstract principles. Assembled from archived memories, this body of work looks for a shortcut through the complexity and conditions of historicity, finding it in its discursive opposition: underlining universality. Transgressing socio-economic, cultural, political, geographic, and historical differences, the experience of pain and the mundane transcend the circumstantial. This series explores how those in-between and un-monumental moments are remarkably more memorable than those that are purported to be. This is why that late afternoon walk with your mom somehow occupies more real estate in my mind than the day of your graduation. Life is ultimately a series of prosaic moments we rarely think to capture. This series aims to capture them.
