“ I used my life as material for my work. By doing this, I am able to explore the conflicts that exist within the everyday and the richness that is found in the mundane.”

“I feel strongly that life and art belong together, intertwined in everyday experiences. I began doing this in earnest when I got married and started a family.”

“I created composites or “paintings” that define my vision of an experience. Through the use of montage, collage, and purposeful juxtaposition of images, it is my intention to present the “truth” of life. I alter, chop, merge, and recompose photographic elements. This process allows me to represent a moment, a memory or life’s reality as I see it. I disrupt linear structures and confuse elements of time and space to convey my notion of how life truly exists; a combination of independent moments that converge to leave us with a unique experience. This process is intended to jar the viewer and call into question our history through memory and as photographic document. “

“For over a decade, I have altered, chopped, merged, and recomposed my photographs.  By doing this, I create work that deals with the notions of truth in photography and its impact on identity.”

“I use my family images and those from my family’s past albums as material for the work. The resulting imagery tells a “new truth” with re-imagined memories, situations, and experiences. “

” ‘SEWN’ expands this notion by incorporating mixed media elements to expand the work to a new realm, to create object that comes off the wall and has its own experiences.  I cut out, obliterate, and cover up elements of an image to draw attention to what is missing, what may have changed, or what needs to be considered. “

“Pieces are sewn together and dyed to congeal the elements and ideas together.  Thread binds the content. Dye binds the colors. Past and present collide.  Memories are colored by the past, guided by the images burned in our brains.”

“True feelings emerge and break through the expected parameters of vernacular imagery.The pieces in this work are purposefully raw and unrefined, recalling the impulsive and rough nature of childhood.”

These are a few different quotes by Liz Steketee where she explains what materials she has used, the reasons behind using them, as well as talking about some of the processes that she has used in order to alter her images into her final pieces. I personally find it interesting, the fact that she is so aware of the untold truth and the ‘what hasn’t been told or the what has fallen between the cracks’. She talks about some of the processes that I am looking into using with my own photographs to create a similar look to hers. I am also going to be looking through and using photographs  that have already been taken and are of me, from old family albums and old family photographs. I really like what she has decided to do with her photograph. I think that it is very creative and something that not everyone will be able to understand, as it is a complex body of work that you really have to look into in depth to understand or get an idea of why she did what she did with particular photographs. We will never know the actual truth, however her type of work allows us to really come to our own conclusions as reasons for why and what is going on.