Deborah DuPont

There are moments in our past—both individual and our collective past—that, when they cross the chaos of our multitasking minds, transport us back to another time and place. Sometimes these fragments are trivial. Yet other times they are formative, so full of emotion and feeling you wonder how you could have ever allowed them to fade. Yet somehow they did, slipping just slightly out of place from your present frame of mind. I began to notice that certain images and objects consistently acted as triggers. A still from a classic film, the ghostly page of a vintage magazines, handwritten letters, old postcards, family photographs. If I reacted so powerfully to them, I was certain they would affect others the same way, causing a similar, but wholly unique reaction. The most evocative images became the memory prompts featured in my work.