Catherine LeComte

I am using digital photography and collage to explore the connections between images, memory, and visual recordings. Images can bind memories, and through archival photographs of my familial relationships, I revisit the past and reprocess those events. I explore how I might remember an event differently from another who was also there, and I am interested in how recorded memories can be transmuted and altered to form a new narrative.

I use the VCR tapes my father recorded of my family and I from the 1990’s as another visual method to revisit my childhood. I play the tapes in rewind, and photograph the scenes as they appear. If I revisit the past, what will I uncover? I recently started using my fathers 8mm film camera, the same camera that recorded me, to record my present day moments. How are my present day memories connected to the ones I have of the past?

EMDR is a therapeutic technique in which one memory is selected and reprocessed per session. With each session, I unweave technologies that recorded me in the same way that EMDR unweaves my mind from the past. I am interested in what memories have shaped who I am, and how reliving those events through past technologies can help me reprocess them. www.catherinelecomte.com