Isabelle Carroll

Artist Statement

Photographs are reminders that sometimes ground, but sometimes confuse. Is it a memory of the moment? Or an invention? Is it ever really possible to revisit a memory, to relive a moment?

In Barbara Ess’ Tell Us Something About Yourself she prompts us to use the photograph to: Use the photograph to remember; use the photograph to forget.

Photographs are catalysts for memories, whether real or invented. Photographs of family, now distant, remind me of the connection we once had; photographs of myself remind me of the person I once was. The past is something projected onto me, projected outwards; as it fades, it fades into noise.

What does the absence of memory look like? What is it like to forget? The past is there, but it’s intangible; I am unable to feel or see it. It is white noise in the background – a constant frequency, a constant intensity – but impossible to grab ahold of; impossible to relive.

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