If you are looking for a portrait artist, I am probably not the one you want to hire. Unless you have a cherished object that talked to you, or that you can’t forget, and no longer have. Maybe, like me, you don’t know where it went, or why it disappeared, but it had an impact on your life that refuses to be silent. (read more…)
I started making portraits of lost objects that were important to me, mostly taken without my permission and given to other people before I was an adult and didn’t have a say in where they went. Others were lost during moves between spaces, or taken without my knowledge by others that I trusted. Most of them were items I used to understand and discover the world around me through sound and images. Some opened up a larger world for me, letting me see and hear places and things that, like many, I only experienced through recordings.
But other objects that disappeared let me make my own records and images, and helped me find my own voice. I gave many of these to other people as I found my way through media technology. Unlike other series of work I have done, these works reflect the objects in a more illustrative manner. The originals are all small, intimate works, initially made as postcards, like a message from my younger self that reveals a path of discovery. I wish I knew where many of these objects went, and hope that any of them helped others see the world in a better way.
