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“LFG.”
9in x 12in, oil paint on wood
I used to take videos and pictures on my 3DS a lot, and now I look back at them and feel this special privilege of seeing myself when I was less conscious of the world. Now I document my life every day, taking at least five pictures a day on my phone.
With social media culture and the availability to take photos whenever, I feel that there is a disconnect to the sentiment of having an image of a moment in your life. As if we want to own the moment we are experiencing and have it to ourselves forever. I think that owning these memories through photos has devalued experiences and intimacy for my generation. I often use my photos app as a memory box, forgetting about entire seasons until I see a photo I took from that time. But I see the value of being able to store your memory in the world we live in today. We have the most information available to us now than ever before and photos have allowed me to be present with that. But because a crucial part of my life (memory) has been optional for me, it has taken away parts of my growth in a way that helps me learn not only how I move and create in the world, but how intimacy changes me.
I have recently deleted all social media and it has led to a lot more room in my mind to learn about my habits and how I want to feel in the world.
In this project, I took a photo from my phone and made a sticker from it on the photos app. I then pasted the sticker in my notes app. I like the missing part of the bed that my phone didn't pick up on when creating the digital sticker. The photo is a picture that my partner Jackson took with a wide lens. I'm laying on him while on my phone. We are in his bedroom in upstate New York. I liked the idea of taking an image that was taken so effortlessly and with muscle memory, due to our access to take photos so often, and I wanted to paint it. When you paint an image you have to spend time with it and learn to understand it. Painting creates importance around an image, you cannot paint something without seeing its story and understanding time. On my phone, I have hundreds of photos of us together, so I wanted to take something that seems to have little value to me today and spend time with it. Painting it gave me sentimental value with something that I could have deleted or I could have posted it online and made it a part of a persona/ subconscious brand. But to challenge how I value my memory and how I value the photos I have on my phone, I decided to paint it.
With social media culture and the availability to take photos whenever, I feel that there is a disconnect to the sentiment of having an image of a moment in your life. As if we want to own the moment we are experiencing and have it to ourselves forever. I think that owning these memories through photos has devalued experiences and intimacy for my generation. I often use my photos app as a memory box, forgetting about entire seasons until I see a photo I took from that time. But I see the value of being able to store your memory in the world we live in today. We have the most information available to us now than ever before and photos have allowed me to be present with that. But because a crucial part of my life (memory) has been optional for me, it has taken away parts of my growth in a way that helps me learn not only how I move and create in the world, but how intimacy changes me.
I have recently deleted all social media and it has led to a lot more room in my mind to learn about my habits and how I want to feel in the world.
In this project, I took a photo from my phone and made a sticker from it on the photos app. I then pasted the sticker in my notes app. I like the missing part of the bed that my phone didn't pick up on when creating the digital sticker. The photo is a picture that my partner Jackson took with a wide lens. I'm laying on him while on my phone. We are in his bedroom in upstate New York. I liked the idea of taking an image that was taken so effortlessly and with muscle memory, due to our access to take photos so often, and I wanted to paint it. When you paint an image you have to spend time with it and learn to understand it. Painting creates importance around an image, you cannot paint something without seeing its story and understanding time. On my phone, I have hundreds of photos of us together, so I wanted to take something that seems to have little value to me today and spend time with it. Painting it gave me sentimental value with something that I could have deleted or I could have posted it online and made it a part of a persona/ subconscious brand. But to challenge how I value my memory and how I value the photos I have on my phone, I decided to paint it.
“Amas House”
12in x 16in, colored pencil on paper
“Rust”
12in x 16in, colored pencil on paper
“All of my stuff”
12in x 16in, colored pencil on paper
“Net”
12in x 16in, colored pencil on paper
“I can be a boy too”
12in x 16in, graphite on paper
“Washing Machine”
12in x 16in, colored pencil on paper
“I’m the boss”
6in x 9in, notebook, photos, glue
A woman is walking through a city, a man lays under the sun in a soft and cool swimming pool.
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