Exhibitions

MARK MCLEOD: REFLECTIONS

The Arts Center / 320 N. White St., Athens, TN May 22, 2017 - July 7, 2017

Mark Mcleod

Mcleod's most recent works of art explore the ever changing and erroneous nature of memory. Memory is a fallible, persistently shifting, exploitable thing. His interest in memory stems from his own inability to store and retrieve some long and most short-term events. He remembers few events from his childhood and very little from his recent past. This deficiency has forced him to rely on secondary storage and retrieval methods. Video has become a backup for incomplete memories and photography has become proof of moments. His life has been subsequently organized into little blue digital folders by year, month, and event. This shortcoming makes him question his limited recollection of the past and what he has come to understand as reality.