Shadows of memory in visual creative practice

Diaries are a central thread running through my artistic work, which include artistic representations as well as the narrative. They are produced wherever I live. Since my film studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1978-79, I have also used the medium of photography to create Erinnerungsrahmen (Memory Frames), which represent 'silent' films about people and places from my life. As in a diary, experiences and everyday images are photographically recorded within the form of a 'picture frame' and combined into a story. The central issue that my work series about shadows and memories is based upon is my artistic journey through life. Shadow images, texts and Memory Frames weave a carpet on which I can go back and forth between my past and my present.