Linden Eller

My work explores a dichotomy between memory architecture and the present experience. Fully enamored by mixed media, I use a variety of materials to create, including paper, found fragments, transparencies, sewing thread, paint, pencil, ink, and pastels. In honoring the “now,” I often will incorporate items from my immediate surroundings, such as plants, petals, tea leaves, receipts from pockets, scattered desk papers, and everyday ephemera. This also supports my aim to increase sustainability in creation - giving purpose to the plain, trash bound items, and renaming them as curious offerings of texture, or poignancy. My work acts as a gentle nudge to loosen our hold on the past, celebrating the science that memory is full of alterations, renewals, and inaccuracies. Embracing intuition, experimentation, and play, many parts of my process are intentionally unplanned - an exercise in mindfulness and acceptance of each moment and decision. I thinks of my work as layered field recordings that represent a oneness – multiple perspectives and repetitions of the same shared story. Richard Powers says, “Memory is always a collaboration in progress.. You’re not just you.”