Untitled Installation

Untitled installation, 2009, mixed media, (size variable)

In Untitled (2008) a small table is covered with an old hand embroidered cloth and loaded with empty photograph frames.  A chair is close by and the wall behind the table has photographs of cluttered shelves and piles of personal possessions. Possessions have become photographs mounted onto a gallery wall. There is a sense of loss, of absence. An evocation of the passing of time and of the part memories play in our sense of place and identity.  The viewer is reminded of similar collections that they may own themselves or are familiar with from the homes of family and friends. But these frames are empty.  A reminder of all those people and events that are not recorded.  The forgotten.  So much of our lives exist as memories confined by the borders of a photograph. Even more so now with the popularity of camera phones.  The un-photographed seems to fade away.