Julie M. Lambert
I make drawings to explore people and events that make up memories. In my memory, people become objects. Songs and art works become time and emotion. Places lose location. The uncertainty of my own and collective memories of events both personal and universal is frustrating. Struggling to remember exact sequence, what was real or imagined and that sometimes dreams seamlessly blend into these memories makes exact recollection difficult. However, it produces a much more vibrant if not confusing and entertaining rendition. I reconstruct the event using the objects as people. Songs and artworks to reference time and emotion and locations become placeless. They work as a catalyst to cast me briefly into that place/time and catapult me back just as intensely. The emotionality compels me to create an authentic experience so it can be shared. Sometimes they are my memories. Sometimes I am an outsider who has been relayed the story. At the same time I am frustrated, I am also fascinated with the ability for memory to lie so far outside of reality.