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Archaeologies of Loss and Longing
absence is presence
landscapes of loss and longing
presence is absence
As an image maker, photographer, and printmaker, I am an archivist of memory and loss, a keeper of ritual, a memoriagrapher. In my art practice, I am interested in the dynamic relationship among presence and absence, the imprint and its ghost, and how loss can offer generative experience and reiterative memory. I accumulate and gather materials to create mounds, piles, stacks in order to document and explore ideas of impermanency, transformation, and the cyclical nature of destruction and regeneration.
There is no end
no beginning
just process
in cyclical
peregrination
Adrienne Defendi
March 2023