Eternal Sunshine 1

I've always been interested in memory, layers (both literal and figurative) and ghostly images.  I love movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Last Year at Marienbad because of their ambiguous, ambivalent, plot lines and endings.  What do we choose to remember? Can we erase bad memories at will, and if so, what happens to the good memories? Is it possible to forget that you made such a big decision as falling in love, and must be reminded by a stranger, who is actually your intended? I am embarking on a series of drawings inspired by these themes and questions. The idea is to move away from the film stills, but they are as always, a good place to start.

Dailies: On Memory: Abre Los Ojos

Shawn Kelly circa 1992. graphite on watercolor paper

So I have exactly one photograph of Shawn Kelly circa 1992, a polaroid that I took,  from when we were both students at Pensacola Junior College and he dropped in to visit me in the Halftones to Jubilee office where I was student editor. He was about to transfer to the Atlanta College of Art; I was on my way to MICA.   His eyes are closed in the photograph, and you don't really know what somebody looks like until he opens his eyes.  I approximated, and if memory serves me right, this is a pretty good representation.

On Memory: Hampden Court, Lakeview East

July 27

July 14

In Progress: On memory and finding the apartment building I lived in during my last 6 months in Chicago 2002. graphite on watercolor paper