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Jason D.
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Artist Statement: In "Last Seen…" I set out to document a period of my life for which no record exists. Although the
work utilizes my personal history, it is not about nostalgia or an effort to retrieve memories. Rather, it
explores the elusive nature of memory itself.
The portraits are composites, created with a computer program developed for forensic sketch
artists; they were pieced together feature by feature - much as are the faces of criminal
suspects-at-large from eyewitness accounts. The faithfulness of each portrait to its subject varies
according to the limits of the program, the clarity of each particular memory, and the creative, often
uncanny ability of memory itself to play with "truth."
The photographs are the result of my recent revisitation of sites associated with the people
depicted in the portraits - homes where we lived, or places we frequented. Again, due to changes in the
physical landscape over time or the haziness of memory, some photos are visually "truer" than others: I
found some buildings essentially unchanged, while some photographs use stand-ins in order to more
accurately reflect my remembered "reality." In others, I substituted what currently stands on the spot,
although it might bear only a slight resemblance to its counterpart in the past.
Thus, "Last Seen…" forays into territory where the present and the past impinge on one another,
creating a curious mixture of the factual and fictive, the real and unreal - the realm of the memory.
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Kathy T.
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Emma K.
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Jerry M.
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