The accumulation of objects and images affects how we process memory. Memory is an imperfect process that involves forgetting and recreating. My work actively misinterprets and changes memory and relationships to real world objects and ideas. This is both a process of remembering (nostalgia) and imagining (romanticizing). Nostalgia, a longing for a past, which may have never existed, and romanticism, a longing for an impossible future, both affect how we interpret the present.

My work explores relationships which have been purposefully been kept distant or abstract. It describes the loss of an imaginary pre-teen romance and desire for a return to a non-existent dreamscape.

I use objects and imagery from my surroundings, stickers, child-like renderings and images from popular culture to create these personal terrains. These dreamscapes describe space as an accumulation of objects, which replace the original content of the space. This absurdity and playfulness describes the impossibility of a return to a space or moment which memory has turned imaginary.