My work explores memory, perception, and the instability of truth through the manipulation of damaged digital photographic files. Using fragmented images from my hometown in Tennessee, I transform corrupted data into layered compositions of shifting color, frequency, and visual interference. Like sound waves or energetic fields, these distortions reveal how information is altered, transmitted, and reassembled over time.

The work is informed by the Rashomon effect or the idea that the same event can be experienced and remembered in fundamentally different ways, and by the fractured nature of contemporary political discourse. It is also deeply personal, reflecting my own experience of memory loss following a traumatic car accident and the fragmented recollections of childhood. By introducing new color, data, and visual frequencies into damaged images, I embrace the spaces where information has disappeared, suggesting that memory is never a fixed recording, but a constantly evolving reconstruction shaped by absence, experience, and perception.