interior

ARTIST STATEMENT —


In the last year, I have focused on the figures in my family archive and exploring their interior lives as an entryway into my own. As a result, my recent work has drawn more inward, and I am contemplating how we shape our interiority while preoccupied with the intimate pursuit of belonging.

"I acknowledge them as my route to a reconstruction of a world, to an exploration of an interior life that was not written, and to the revelation of a kind of truth,” wrote the American novelist Toni Morrison about her foremothers in 1995. This small body of work explores the interior of a moment past and asks what happens when we attempt to conjure a rememory after an encounter with the haptic repository that is the archive. By imagining an interior landscape, we more deeply understand our fears and desires and ultimately hope that the richness of our interior world, too, is enough. 

Historically, I have connected to Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory as reimagining a moment or memory in which I did not belong — traveling and traversing the public and interior lives of the women in my familial archive, using it as a portal back to myself. In this iteration, I am considering my own emotional terrain and what it means to engage rememory as a tool to explore primal moments in our interior lives that have shaped who we are, our life trajectories, and how we attempt or fail to rewrite ourselves out of them.

WORKS ON VIEW–

Solo Exhibition
John William Gallery
1313 N. Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801

John William Gallery through May 22, 2024