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Memory is the guardian and treasury of all things. Frustrated by the limitations of painting, specifically portraiture, I sought to develop a collaborative project to investigate the boundaries of memory. I constructed large-scale portraits of individuals and asked them to destroy the painting as they saw fit.  I documented this on video alongside audio recordings of specific memories.  The final product is a video documenting the destruction of the painting. Through the destruction of the portrait, a fragmented memory was created, altering the relationship between art and object, portrait and subject.

                                 

 Justus Ballard. Video Still, 2005.                                                                                         Leanna Covalt. Video Still, 2005.