All That Remains examines the biological phenomenon of insomnia and its mental and physical effects on the body. The work is a documentation and interpretation of chronic insomnia that the artist endured over the course of six months. Throughout this time the artist collected her hair that was shed on a daily basis as evidence and a physical manifestation of an internal struggle. Three different approaches were made in the documentation of the occurrence: scientific and detached, psychological and emotional, and narrative.
Shed Illusions documents the experience scientifically by photographing the hair loss accumulated over the course of roughly six months. On a cold white background with individual clumps of hair in the center, each photograph acts as evidence and a portrait of an evening of sleeplessness. The massive grid encapsulates the experience of insomnia as a whole creating a map of time passed.
I Forgot to Remember to Forget continues to use hair as the subject but is reflective of the psychological and emotional effects of insomnia. Sleep studies indicate that the blue and green colors are suggestive of calmness and serenity, prompting peace and tranquility in the viewer but depict the harsh reality of hair loss, unstable mental space, and the effects of insomnia. The photograms are more personal and evocative of the vast emptiness and oblivion or the overactive mental space that occurs in the middle of the night.