“At 67 years old, I can tell you this: I have lived a real happy, interesting, fun life; and not a whole lot of the things that I wanted to do that I didn’t do. From racin’ cars, to racin’ boats, to jumpin’ outta airplanes… doin’ a lot of crazy stuff that I wouldn’t do now, but I have all of the good memories…” –Garth Brown

Over the course of one year, I recorded stories told by my father, Garth Brown. Through an intuitive process of selecting significant objects from his stories and translating them into

nonsensical visual narratives, I reinterpreted his words into a series of constructed still lifes. The process was sort of like the game telephone, where a sentence is whispered to the person next to you and they whisper it to the person next to them and so on, creating an entirely new, usually laughable, sentence. By combining my images of these allegorical elements with my father’s voice, I intend to showcase his colorful life and preserve my family’s history and culture. Through this collaboration I have worked to create an intimate, yet relatable space that anyone can enter.

My curious and skeptical nature has allowed my work to transform back and forth, while trying to avoid a specific typology. In this current series, Long Time to Forget, I am interested in a number of things such as southern culture, memory’s ability/inability, how an image is created because/for a story, and combining my clinical compositions with an intuitive slapstick quality. I was born in Beaumont, TX and recently graduated from Texas State University where I studied Photography and Painting. I am currently living in Austin, TX with open plans for the future.