There is often a commonality in what we think of as our individual past. As a lens-based artist, I seek to reposition my past as an operative with broader context. In exploring its impact, both active and benign, memory becomes metaphorical and ritualistic. I strive for my images and assemblages to provoke, engage, and inform a universal memory with influences of contemporary life. Reinventing the narrative of the stories and rituals will enable them to live on with a deeper, broader, context than the obvious.