The Persistence of Memory
(an open-ended series in progress)

        Drawing on the concepts behind the popular web-comic, A Softer Side and The Secrets of Flight, as well as the popular PostSecret books, I have compiled and collected photographs I have taken in my ventures in and out of my bedroom walls. What distinguishes these photographs from the rest is the fact that these were taken purely in a state of hopeless melancholy. I am often always pensive when this happens, preferring complete and utter solitude, camera in hand. Succumbing to the beautiful and haunting sadness, I become pensive and distant, and the images that come out from my reel after I shoot illustrate my 'self' as both the silent and willing observer and participant. I observe before I set up my shot, but I also transform what is before me to fit my pensive and melancholic state.

        The series title has been appropriated from Salvador Dali's very famous 'Persistence of Memory' painting. Dali's painting reflects his desire to be immortalized through his images; my images, in more ways than one, illustrate the memories I long to forget but am too terrified to truly let go of. In these pockets of time, I dwell dangerously in the past, immortalizing it to the point where my past becomes my present. Oddly enough, the creation of this series has been both my drug and my therapy; on one hand, doing this grants me the release I crave when I cannot will myself to cry; on the other, my succumbing to these lapses renders me unable to move on.

        The addition of text serve as mini-anecdotes, snippits of lines from the diaries in my mind. In some instances, however, I allow the image to speak on its own.

"All your pain will end here; let the doctor soothe your brain, dear." - Emily Haines