About Boxes

If portraits are images that show a person in a moment in time, then these boxes each contain a portrait based on a story told to me about a person I have never met. While each image holds a meaning and story for me, the viewer is left to build within these photo amalgamations. I combine images and create a sort of hybrid photo painting, excluding the person, but expressing them through the story. Through this process I am exploring how photomontage mirrors painting in its indexicality. When it is taken, a photograph is based in reality. By altering that image through montage or infra red, I am creating a false index. There is something in the photo itself that lies to and conversely convinces a person of what is present in the image. This photographic "lie" is very much related to memory itself and the idea that no memory can ever be true. These memories that were conveyed to me in story are also not entirely true, but are portraits that show a part of a person.