Sentimental Action
Memory as Currency
Sentimental Actions is a long-term photographic investigation developed within the formal architecture of Transaction Art. The series reconceptualizes memory not as narrative or interior faculty, but as an archival condition — a system of preserved records severed from subjective recollection.
The project is constructed from a personal photographic archive documenting a twenty-year span of life rendered inaccessible by neurological erasure. While authorship of the images remains with the artist, their function as memory does not. The archive operates autonomously: a repository of experiential residues without an experiencing subject. Memory persists here as material rather than meaning, as evidence rather than echo.
Each work is generated through the digital stratification of multiple source photographs fused into a single palimpsestic plane. This methodology produces images of deliberate optical instability, resisting chronology, perspectival unity, and narrative resolution. The works do not open onto the past; they register its structural inaccessibility.
Within the Transaction Art framework, Sentimental Actions archives memory as a transaction that cannot be settled. It documents the rupture between lived experience and its documentation, positioning memory not as recoverable narrative, but as an open ledger — systematically preserved, meticulously recorded, and fundamentally unreachable.
