When I learned to sew, the first thing I was told was that thread must be stronger than what it holds together.

When visiting a memory, I dust its surface over with the present moment. I draw myself further away from the memory itself, and closer to my preceding encounters with it.

In this show, I explore the fragmentation of memory committed by remembrance itself, and the limits of imageric forms of memory preservation—taking the written word into my understanding of image.

These works tend towards a visual treatment of text: through palimpsests, repetition, illegible writing, predictive text, and textual pattern-making. In doing so, I seek to acknowledge, if not yet approach, the possibility of an ambient, unattentive (non)reading process. My practice is grounding in analog processes of making. When working digitally, I take my family’s photographic archive as my source material.

I have been threading myself through Cy Twombly’s oeuvre: investigating the blurring boundary between text and image through the use of quotation, asemic writing, and atmospheric aesthetics. I conceptualize his use of quotation as an encounter with an encounter, a doubling presence reminiscent of memory’s temporal fold. Speaking of the Ineffable marks both an extension of the project and a departure from Twombly as the subject of the project. This exhibit offers an in-progress, visual counterpart, addressing that which rubs up against the brink of language. I am speaking of the ineffable.

The second thing I was told is that thread is not meant to be seen.