Stephanie Armbruster

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“Everything that can be said, can be said clearly. And what we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence.”

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

The work of artist Stephanie Armbruster is an attempt to illustrate the purely subjective portions of memory – the private experiences that we feel and sometimes share, but which evaporate the moment we try to articulate them. We live through our experiences, moment to moment, chasing them, trying to capture them and hold on to them like hungry ghosts – but all we are ever left with is memory. The negative space in our public reality.

Each emotive piece represents a developing vocabulary of gesture and color, exploring the language-less nature of transition and uncertainty. With their floating, atmospheric presence, they document the anticipation of possibilities and the obsession with events that have already transpired, seen through the lens of synesthesia. Devoid of literal language, these are stories that must be shown and cannot be told. Fragments of a greater reality; whole, yet incomplete.

Like layers of memory, certain elements become obscured, while others are exposed, rising ominously to the surface as if paused between actions. A series of moments frozen in time.