Lauren Daccache, "garden spill"

Description

Lauren Daccache, "garden spill"
Reactive dye print on mulberry silk, artist made frame
25 x 40 inches

Artist Bio: Lauren Daccache (b. 1993) is a Lebanese-American visual artist raised between the US and Beirut, Lebanon and based in Cooks Falls, NY. She works between New York and Lebanon, and uses photography, sound, and installation making long-term, image-based projects that explore the impact of time and age on people and their spaces. She is currently interested in the inconsistencies and tension between personal and collective memory, and the ways in which we reconstruct the past in the absence of a complete record.

Artist Statement: 'garden spill' is part of my ongoing series 'coming back is not just returning to a place'. It’s about how remembering is messy, how it's generative —how trying to hold onto a place or a feeling always turns it into something new. For those of us in the Lebanese diaspora, memory is our most precious resource: part archive, part invention, caught in a continuous loop of leaving, returning, remembering, and forgetting. This photo was taken in and of the gardens where I grew up, and it kind of spills out of the frame the way memories do—blurry around the edges, hard to contain.