During the search for a year of missing memories after two separate brain injuries I was writing memories, trolling my own instagram account, and meditating. I was constantly writing down thoughts, memories, and ideas for projects, as well as my own daily reflections in an effort not to lose them again. I became fascinated by the different weight, color, texture, length, and thickness that I associated with memories as I recovered them and wrote them down… which led me to the desire to write them onto different ribbons. Wanting to stretch my own vulnerability and begin to give voice to the memories that I had lost and found, I started hanging them around Paris. Confronting and surprising passerbys with memories of beauty, tragedy, anger, and love.
I evolved this into a memory project for the death of my mother on the anniversary of her death in an aspen grove. Using quotes she had written down throughout the course of my life in a book journal, I wrote them onto ribbons in her favorite colors and hung the in an aspen grove. I took them down six months later on my birthday.