Valerie Jo White

Memory is imperfect and every time you recall a memory, it changes and becomes less accurate. One way that we preserve some truth of our memories is through photographs and videos. While this preservation seems to be reliable, it is an incomplete record. Moreover, the archive of these memories can become corrupted.

By intentionally disrupting the code of photographs and collaging the corruptions together, I create imagined landscapes which embody the experience of recounting memories over time. The factual and the imagined are at war in these images, calling into question what, if anything, is real. Although our memories seem trustworthy to us, they are no more than a collage of partial truths.