The brain is a complex organ. The fact that humans can create pictures within their minds as they recollect times past fascinates me. Many people can recall and replay these snapshots without issue. For me, it has always been a challenge. Even though my learning style highly favors visuals, my ability to remember or recall events without ambiguity is inconsistent. Most memories come to me in vibrant fragments. And sometimes - especially those memories involving people and places that I have intimate connections to - they fuse together to create new hybrids that later alter and fade over time. 

The Resistance of Memory pays homage to surrealist artist Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory (1931). In his piece, Dalí discredits his reality with the precision of artistic technique and uses elements of familiarity in a dreamlike fashion that are fairly disorienting. My work features meticulously crafted and curated techniques in its execution as well, but draws all inspiration from photographs of real, lived events. Like Dalí, I also use paint in my pieces. However, I’ve chosen watercolor washes of various intensities to render my drawings (a commentary on the dissolution of memory over time).

This series is a collection of amalgamations, each one a reminder of how memory is resistant to permanence. While the compositions in this series may be perplexing at first, the subtle aspects of their complex and comforting combinations challenge the viewer and draw them deeper. It is my intent to leave space for wonderment about what is real and what is imagined when we remember.