In this series, I took what appear to be a series of faded tourist snapshots I took of European fountains and put the same image of myself in each scene. By presenting moments that never actually existed, I am rewriting the memory of a foreign holiday. By doing this, I am asking the viewer to contemplate the experience of tourism, and in a bigger sense to consider the fuzzy way we sometimes choose to remember our past.

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