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CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF CREATIVE EXCELLENCE 1873 — 2023

Aaron Burleson

Student art

Aaron Burleson

My photographic and archival practice is concerned with the tangled themes of recollection, preservation, and vacancy. Working with archival and found materials is the center point for my photographic practice. These existing materials, traces of the past, lead the pictures. The hovering questions my work asks is: what do archived objects reveal or hide, and how do they impact the way we understand individuals in time? My photographs focus on affected interpersonal connections, the symbols to these connections, and their marks left. I tend to turn toward images that are ambiguous or allegorical, pointing to synthetic references and hidden content. The conundrum between how one appears and what can be read lies at the heart of my