MEMORY THREAD This exhibition explores different aspects of memory, the palimpsest that constructs my reality. I have been working with the idea of a repeated memory, an involuntary memory that plunges the individual into remembrance of the past. The conscious memories we retain, also referred to as Voluntary Memory, are like pages of a photo album, but they fail to capture the essence of the past. I have tried to visually portray Involuntary Memory, those memories that appear in my mind, explosive, sudden and unpredictable. The experience comes upon us in a flash, without warning. It is not a rational experience, it drives us powerfully, perhaps more powerfully than the rational. They arrive and vanish without premeditation. (Cont..)

MEMORY THREAD (CONT..) Mono print- making seems to communicate the irrational nature of involuntary memory well as I have little or no control over the outcome, just as I have little or no control over the memory. The image is imbedded into the paper as the memory is imbedded into my mind. These same images keep on repeating over and over again in different compositions, just as involuntary memory repeats and presents itself differently in my mind, disjointed and fragmented over time, eventually only faint traces and marks are left, almost erased on the fragile Japanese paper. In this body of work, lines represent the meandering paths of memory—overlapping, intersecting, and picking up new threads, new line, dreams, illusion, and other realities, exploring the strata of memories formulated over time. In my mind threads are metaphorical for interactions or conversations, loops as repetitions, tangles as complications. This meditative process allows my mind to wonder, each finished piece becomes a record of my thoughts.