Traci Lee

In her work she questions the validity of personal memory and memory preservation - specifically looking at the implications and consequences of the Snapshot and the Constructed Image on the individual. Collective memory, is another area of interest for her, particularly how the individual, manufactures his or her own memory, while simultaneously influencing another's. This back and forth, memory dialogue between photographs, memorabilia, and people inspires her to excavate her own personal history - searching for a response to the notion of a true photograph or a real memory. This compulsion inevitably leads to finding new methods of holding onto brief, constantly changing realities, as well as confronting her own tendencies and obsessive drive to collect, as a process of examining loss. Read Less