My mother was an active duty military
soldier. We moved around a lot; never staying in one place more than two years.
I was constantly uprooted from my friends, and with every move I set out with
expectations of finding companionship. My childhood was a constant journey,
taken alone, with hopes of finding someone to connect with everywhere I went.
While traveling to a new place, I had desires of being back at the place I was
moving from; my mind would be filled with memories of the past and a desire to
belong to that time again. This experience deeply influenced my thinking when
creating this body of work.
Throughout this video sequence, I am sending
the viewer on a journey of lost hope through an investigation of space that is
filled with remnants of the past. By photographing the university campus in
which I am attending, I am capturing commonly populated places void of the
human presence. In doing so, I am depicting the visual silence of these
unoccupied spaces.
Accompanying the images are sound recordings
that allude to the human presence which is negated by the images. The video
then, becomes a journey through still moments that have past, while the sound
recordings serve two purposes: to guide the viewer through time and space, and
to become memories embedded in the spaces to signify the lack of a human
presence. Throughout this work I want the viewer to consider the sounds they
hear in relation to the spaces they see, as the video is played continuously on
a loop to leave the viewer continuing on this journey with unanswered questions
and no visible end.
