Picturing Me is an installation as self-portrait, made of the stuff of my life: scribbles in school notebook margins, CDs, sheets of slides, and used datebook pages hang next to things that are more obviously monumental like a school achievement award or a tennis trophy. All of this is organized in a grid, marked out using thread pinned onto the walls, to lend a coherence and organization to the layout. While portraits are typically a direct image of someone or thing, and in contrast to contemporary practices of memorializing parts of our lives, predominately in virtual space with straightforward curated and controlled images, I propose ephemera representing events and moments in my life as an intimate form of sharing, similar to looking through a private scrapbook, to flesh out a picture that is fuller than just an image.

Amidst this self-presentation, there are current works that similarly present a portrait of something that is not directly there. I continue my exploration of the element of trace in artwork, recording an inverse image of something that was once there. The exhibition as a whole proposes an alternate portraiture, relying the physical representation of an event to “paint” the image.