"Purple Banana Seat Bicycle: 1968"
Colleen Tully

If your mind didn’t know words, would you still think in sentences, or perhaps images with random thoughts? Or furthermore, would your mind visualize distorted images only your emotions can associate with memory?

Colleen Tully explores childhood memories in an electronic self-portrait effort through computer collaged imagery. In her upcoming show Random Access Memory with printmaker Liz Pagano at ALL gallery in New Haven, CT, Tully pulls together geographical maps of New Orleans, old Polaroid images from the 1960s of her sister and herself, and in the above image "Purple Banana Seat Bicycle: 1968 " she is “using a picture that has, over time, become the
substitute for the actual memory of a Christmas morning.”
This concept of taking memories and creating electronic abstract ideas through a kind of random access much in the way computers retrieve information will continue to be a subject many artists I believe will explore.

Like so many works, nothing compares to seeing the works in person, and the upcoming RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY is no exception.

http://www.allgallery.org/press