Eternity Splices Time
2011
Description
Digital photographs, stitching
19" x 13"
2010
Fields
Fine Arts, Digital Photography, Mixed Media
  • Eternity Splices Time
    Digital photographs, stitching
    19" x 13"
    2010
  • Roadside memorials appear as pauses in the blur of constant movement. They become an invitation for introspection and a confrontation to stop and notice time and place. I began photographing these monuments and learning the stories behind their existence. Memorials marked the moment that time literally stopped for one person. They marked a place that was not just one point of many between my coming and going, but a sacred ground where the ultimate physical experience took place. This series consists of photographs of memorials that have been taken from my cell phone camera. I edit out the main part of the memorial—leaving enough evidence on the edges to reveal what the photograph depicts—and push the sides together, running a stitch up the center where the sides have been merged. The work refers not only to this idea of death as the antithesis of the fragmentation of time and space, but also to the idea of digitally mediated escapism and distancing as a tool of healing—or forgetting.