Heather McCalden

At the bottom of it, you could say I'm deeply concerned with time. The passing of it, and its consequent preservation. The movement of time unnerves me; one feels it coming and going without much to show for it. As a result I deal conceptually with loss, nostalgia, defeat and appropriation, hoping, somehow, to create some type of personal resolution in regards to lost time.  

I manage this preoccupation by creating images – ones that unfold in real time, and others that are frozen and cut-off from their original contexts. All images, whether they're aware of it or not, whether they are moving, still or performed live, deal in the currency of duration, and they are in turn comments on this – even if they fail to recognise it. I take this to heart in my work and attempt to delineate the affects of these comments while making some of my own.