Holly

Family stories told countless times, resulting in a string of unending puns and inside anecdotes, objects, images, smells, and sounds that trigger memories of the actual events, and the need to create an arena of discussion for my family's specific idiosyncrasies have fueled my search for personal iconography. The resulting imagery emerges out of the often-unsung legacy that is my heritage. The flatness of the work references mapping through the use of a diagrammatic space. Memory and association are addressed in the electrical connections of the water ripples turned neurons and synapses, and more subtly, compositions are arranged as a strange documentation of occurrence and situation. Through this process I hope to create a contemporary lineage all my own.