I am both a painter and a photographer. I work with my own imagery as well as found photographs and papers to explore ideas about time, loss, transition, and memory. My work juxtaposes the past and the present within modern context.

For my series titled, "Truth Be Told", I am continuing with the theme of memory, exploring the intersection between the photographic image and what can be real or imagined, joining these ideas in a new visual context.

Within our media-immersed lives, the object of a photograph, once thought of as “evidence,” has been continually challenged by technology, and what was once considered a visual representation of the truth is now a malleable resource much like memory.

For this series I chose random photos from my iPhone presenting a provable record of a specific moment in time that I had directly experienced. Each image in the series is archivally printed over vintage pages taken from books of fiction, juxtaposing the past and the present, romance and reality, fact and fiction. The images are titled with a corresponding alphabetic format, referring to the elementary way in which learning begins with objects, associations, and memory. Inscribed en verso, these titles- a "real-time" chronology documenting the date and time of the photograph, are accompanied by the corresponding alpha letter and word identifying the subject in the image.

“The pictures will not go away,” Susan Sontag wrote. “That is the nature of the digital world in which we live … Up to then, there had been only words, which are easier to cover up in our age of infinite digital self-reproduction and self-dissemination, and so much easier to forget.”

When I paired the two opposing ideas of fact and fiction, the photos with text revealed dynamic nuances that were unfamiliar to me although they were my own memories, and I knew I had to explore this contrast further; When I wasn’t finding answers, but more questions, I had to continue exploring this uncharted path..