The series Engrams explores how the photograph operates as the impetus for recall. Condensing space and time, offering only fragments and abstractions, what type of past can a photograph conjure for the Spectator? Barthes answers, “I may know better a photograph I remember than a photograph I am looking at” (53). Through silhouetted lighting, which abstracts the subject matter, this series attempts to detach the photograph from its descriptive properties and instead offers the viewer an alternative way of looking. The past, suspended by the photographic image, waits to be resurfaced by the viewer.
