Artist statement: I will survive is concerned with stories of caution, superstitions, myths, and instructions for survival that were passed on to me as a child in the bush. Carried from a young age, these memories of ghosts, witches, and larger-than-life predators became embellished, or accrued heightened emotional resonances – shifting and changing in their constant retelling.
It is said that a memory changes whenever it is remembered, and its revision becomes a new truth. The action of exploiting memories for the purpose of storytelling is often done without conscious thought. Memories when created, are subjective to their beholder and when recited, are adjusted according to their audience.
Photographed between location and studio portraiture, I will survive was constructed through digital collage, overlapping and layering images, surveying the ways that memories shift over time.
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