
Language of Memory is a hand-processed, optically printed film composed of rayographs of my grandmotherās still negatives from the early 1900s, strips of her old lace casting abstract patterns on high contrast film, and the overlapping gestures of sewing and splicing film, related techniques historically attributed to women. It is both homage to my grandmotherās creative influence and a deconstruction of memory through fragmentation and the accretion of associations surfacing from the tactile processes of the filmās making.