Natalie Bradford

Natalie Bradford graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in print media. Her work focuses on memory, temporality, nostalgia through collage, image transfer, and hand sewing on paper.

She says: “My work explores the ways in which our memories undergo natural change as we age; the process of trying to hold onto those precious moments of people and places that we love and want to remember forever, but lose parts of through countless retrievals in our heads. Every time we recall a moment from our long-term memory in particular, some of the information either gets lost in the retrieval process or our brains fill in small gaps with other memories, resulting in a slightly different and ever changing ‘false’ memory. Eventually, our memories will get so scattered in our heads that they become completely unreliable, and eventually are lost forever.”