Marc Ullom
Evidence
I am interested in how we perceive memory. I am intrigued by the mystery of photographs that hint of an idealized memory or place, or a dark hidden fragment, a thing barely tangible. So often our memories are flawed or imprecise, just shards of an experience of a place or time. Often they are jumbled and chaotic. Very rarely is a memory so chrystalline that we can conjure up all the details, so it is with these qualities in mind that I create my constructed photographs.
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This current body of work uses representations of the human form and visual cues such as bottles, twigs, seeds, and string to visually reconstruct fragmented memory. My intent is to create images that cause the viewer to pause and ask questions about the elements in the work and to create relationships between the disparate pieces that have no singular interconnection, but that allow each viewer to project their experience into the images.
In many ways this lengthy process, which can sometimes be spread out over days, is a sort of therapy, an expression of and a statement about my own personal experience and questions that fill my life and the perception of my worldview. This work is a visual journey, but an imprecise one that does not express any thought with absolute clarity. I find myself always searching for truth in the challenges I face, and often I find nothing absolute, only more questions that lead down a path of exploration and discovery about myself and the
world around me.
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