Paramnesia

All memories and all photographs are works of fiction, whose meanings are intertwined with elements of truth.  Interpretations of both are transient, constantly incorporating new ideas and experiences.  In light of that philosophy, I regard my photographs as autobiographical fictions.  They hold true evidence of the world, while distorting the past and suggesting something else.  The images provide metaphoric cues about my own history and, in less concrete ways, they are amalgamations of memories, fantasies and actual experience.  I have named this body of work after the memory disorder that produces a similar commingling of fact and fiction: paramnesia.