1 — For the past couple of years, I have been training an AI model to learn, and to appropriate frames from my family's home video collection.
2 — I treat these AI-generated images as source material. Not as fully believed truths, but also not as false memories either.
3 — I am interested in the ineffable artifacts that accompany memory.
4 — In Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo always uses aspects of his home, Venice, to describe another fictional city.
5 — As a musician, I am magnetized by sound's power to locate me in relation to both physical and perceptual space.
6 — Art at its best can be an exercise in personal, perceptual location.