Fragments

Working with remnants as materials can reference important pieces of a larger story, or be reassembled into a new narrative. Fragments and fragmentation—deconstructing fragments of memory or reassembling incongruent bits into a different narrative—offer an artistic way to reference an absent whole. On one hand, a fragment references the idea of a greater whole that now has pieces missing; on the other hand, a fragment is a finite piece of information, standing alone and being a whole unto itself. Conceptually, a fragment can be an independent, partial, incomplete history, and this can have positive and negative aspects when considered as one piece of a story or a single memory trace.