Evolving Recollection

A personal exploration combining film photography and screen printing, first presented as a nontraditional installation in the Pool Art Center gallery at Drury University, and a practice I've continued to evolve ever since.

Evolving Recollection

APEX Capstone

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Screen Printing

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Photography

Memory is never a perfect copy. Each time we recall a moment, it shifts a little, holding onto certain shapes and letting others fade. Evolving Recollection grew from that idea. I began with film photography, then reinterpreted each image through screen printing, pulling away from the literal subject to focus on the forms within it. Rather than layering the mediums directly onto one another, I gave them physical space, separating the photograph and the screen print so each stood on its own. As viewers moved through the installation, the pieces gradually came into conversation, forms drifting closer, overlapping, and echoing one another, until everything aligned and the connection between the mediums came fully into view. Through repetition, contrast, and the interplay of positive and negative space, the work created a rhythm and balance that shifted with every step. What remains isn't a record of what was photographed, but a recollection of it, one the viewer completes simply by finding where to stand. Presented as a nontraditional installation at Drury's Pool Art Center, the work invited viewers to experience it beyond the walls of a typical gallery, and this way of seeing has continued to shape my creative work ever since.