Samantha Leigh Kearney

I embrace Where I’ve Been. With ongoing works, I recreate the familiar. I use documentation to record daily life and retain memories. I spend time working towards concepts that acknowledge the mundane and capture points in time. I create models of the places I have been, places that hold significance in my life and development. I embrace the home, where life happens. People remember where they come from, become encapsulated by memories both good and bad. I am trying to hold on to things I have had to let go when I had no control. Through the use of photography and paper manipulation, I want to set the reminders to strive to do better and make a life that carries a different weight. They are a callout to myself, to the work that I do. I am here to direct my future and alter my timeline. I will ensure that I follow a different path and will not end up back where I started.