Carissa Kolcun
Memory is the basis of my practice. The work I create is a meditation through memory, engaging recollection through combinations of symbols, textures, and sounds. In my practice, memory is as necessary as it is unreliable. The dream is a memory that contorts the present; the present is actualized through the process of remembering. As John E Drabinski states in Glissant and the Middle Passage, “Memory is about the future. Perhaps memory is for the future.” Exploring memory through relation, the work I create coalesces material to articulate interwoven futures; imagined futures that encompass more than human history. Through memory, I interweave disparate connections between the self, the body, history, and the earth.