I CAN ONLY REMEMBER WHAT I DON'T FORGET
"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that is gone forever, impossible to reproduce" Karl Lagerfeld
I Can Only Remember What I Don't Forget is about memory, loss, aging and the creation of a legacy for the future. By photographing images and items as they existed in my parents' drawers, I am creating a new way of exploring personal history and the process of aging. Although my images do not change the original context, the new appropriated images change the meaning.
Ultimately, this series recontextualizes a way of looking at photographs and artifactsfrom family archives. Although the moment may be impossible to reproduce, it often lingers in my mind as I sift through photographs and recreate a personal narrative. However, the experience is never the same and the memory fades.This fleeting moment in time reminds us that we can only remember what we don't forget, since some things are gone forever.
I created these images to hold on to things that are slipping away, not only from me personally, but from my family and eventually all of us. It is to remind us that there is and was a world before technology.