Becca Wahl is an artist living in tampa, florida. Her work explores the elusiveness of light, the processing of grief through connection and alignment, and how photographs become fragmented stewards of memory. By supporting and sanctifying photographs and found objects through tense forces and materials such as glass, solder and slide projections, she builds monuments to the ephemeral. Photographs as mnemonic devices and found objects as anchors of presence. The work seeks to forge connections—between self and object, chance and response, and holding in effort of remembering.
i am building monuments using photographs as mnemoic devices and found/beloved objects as anchors of presence
fix/permanance
suck/savor/soothe
impulses/instincts
fragmentation/wholeness
tolerance/obedience
i have been finding myself in what i cannot control; light leaks that feel like my presence, a mutating emulsion, the tolerance of solder that shows me the heaviness of my hand, the distance documented light asks to travel; recreated by a slide projector and then caught between materials who’s translucency teaches me what passes through is changed between holding and loss.