STATEMENT in an article challenging art-historical analyses of 17th-century dutch still life as a negotiation of economic and moral values, elizabeth alice honig proposes a view of materiality through "the mentality of collecting," which encourages permutation rather than synthesis. ¹
I situate my body of work in a similar framework: collecting remembered, imagined, sensorial experiences by way of a kunstkammer, where fragments retain meaning without acting as stand-ins for a whole.
most of my paintings are referenced from my own photographs, occasionally from those of my father. I start compulsively, rework often, and regularly finish years after I begin — so, while I interrogate my own memories (impressions), the resulting works are far from impressionistic.
¹ Honig, Elizabeth Alice. "Making Sense of Things: On the Motives of Dutch Still Life." RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 34 (1998): 166-83.
