Only the Edges Can Be Seen 

Andrew Thorne, woodcut, monotype and inkjet on Kozo, chine collé, 15 in x 20 in, 2023

Photography by Mark Freeman

Media Memory began as a collaborative project between multidisciplinary artists Andrew Thorne and Devin Chambers. By combining our shared knowledge of artmaking through photography, printmaking, and sound, our project begs the question; what does our media remember and how does our media change what we remember? 

Media Memory is a series of digitally rendered photos, and physically manipulated monotype prints with layered soundscapes. This work uses different facets of media to express and interpret the complex emotions that can arise from rapidly consuming information online. 

Thorne uses woodcut and stenciling processes to explore how the personal can be conveyed through ephemera and little paper nuances such as hand written notes, doodles and other debris. In both of these bodies of work, we are interested in how the digital alters the “real”.

Visualizing a similar frenzy of chatter and lost moments, this body of work also features a series of audio pieces, soundscapes of memory. Similar to the layering of images, the audio in this exhibition comes as waves of information, saturating and collaging moment on top of moment. These recorded excerpts include our telephone conversations, the sound of a room full of love and laughter, among other field recordings. Walking along the TREX Wall in the Grande Praire Art Gallery, patrons will notice that each set of speakers is playing a different piece of audio. Sounds from the exhibition blend into the score of the surrounding noise.