The single childhood memory of my grandfather, the one vestige of a brief seemingly inconsequential experience, it turns out, was actually a recollection I had constructed from a photograph. (re)collecting / (re)constructing addresses the means by which we fabricate memory and the futile pursuit of that which can not be regained. We possess a tendency to retrieve and retain experience; but the very means by which we attempt to do so encumbers our success. Loss [death] is the immutable genuine nature of the photographic image (Barthes) — for me this work is about the loss of loss — the dispossession of the last vestige of that which had encompassed my relationship with a portion of my past. Each photographic…