Chatswood High School
Gamaragal Country
Remnants
Documented Forms
Oil on canvas, digital video/audio
Memories construct the fundamental building blocks of our identities, yet they are delicately plastic, prone to alteration, ambiguity and their inevitable fade. My body of work, Remnants, explores blissful nostalgia and the melancholic horror of losing our authentic memories. Elina, the main character in the short film, is represented struggling as her disorientating Alzheimer's Disease takes hold. The oil paintings in my work are intended to be Elina's, as if done by her throughout her mental decay. By examining an extreme condition of memory loss, the film and paintings complement each other to communicate the transience and fragility of memory.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: William Utermohlen, Claude Monet, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Leyland James Kirby (The Caretaker), Erik Satie.
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