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Remembering Her Forgetting

Oil on panel, gold leaf, skateboard bearings, 3 electric motors, drive belts, and wood

83.82 X 127 cm (33 x 50in)

Cabinet 203.2 X 96.52 X 25.4 cm (80 x 38 x 10 in)

$15000

A face assembles, disassembles, and assembles again. Each panel moves independently, never fully synchronized.
The image resolves briefly, then fractures. Recognition occurs as an event rather than a condition.
Once per cycle, the portrait becomes legible. Then the mechanism resumes.

The figure remains present throughout. What fails is not the body, but alignment.
Time here is mechanical, repetitive, and indifferent to recovery.
The system does not remember. It only repeats.

What is lost does not disappear at once. It leaves incrementally, through motion, delay, and misfire.
The person remains. The knowing recedes.

Remembering Her Forgetting attempts to visually document the slow loss of Lucy. As she slipped from us and her personality fractured, the absence accumulated. What was lost did not vanish all at once; it left gradually, repeatedly, and with slow finality.

The portrait is composed of 320 custom-designed, 3D-printed components and 162 precision bearings, a fully engineered mechanical architecture concealed behind the paint.

It's 54 panels rotate on 54 unique gear ratios, dispersing the image into a complex, non-repeating field of fragments before returning to imperfect alignment.