When was the last time you blew bubbles?

Maybe it takes a minute for you to recall. Perhaps what you remember is not the most recent but instead the most vivid. While memories can be elicited at will to relive a moment of joy and appreciation, they can also make appearances when unprovoked. Traumatic memory can work this way. At what seems an indiscriminate moment, a flash comes to mind. All the details are there, the sounds, the sights, and perhaps even the aromas.

Where was it all this time? Why had it remained hidden? What caused its extraction?

Indiscriminate is an installation that investigates how memory seems to be stored, recalled, and refiled. An event, at any moment of time, is allotted its space in our files. The file is stored for later retrieval. However, it can never be recalled, remembered, or read but the same person. From moment to moment, we are not, nor can we ever be, the same person. We have lived, gained knowledge, changed perspectives, have new understandings. The retrieved moments are never read again by the same person's mind that gave them space.

This installation begins with personal memories typed on a manual typewriter. This format makes corrections harder to accomplish and allows me to become free from editing. Next, the texts are enlarged and then screen-printed onto washi paper using an acid-based material. The Initially printed text is not visible. Then heat is used on each printed sheet that burns the screen printed copy and develops the text. Wax is then used applied to all sheets of washi paper. Finally, the printed, burnt, waxed washi paper is folded into small equilateral triangles. The wax holds the fold marks that are impressed into the sheets and helps develop the fluid forms of the installation.