Greg Sand is an artist who explores the issues of time and death. He produces work that addresses the nature of photography and its role in defining reality.

Greg Sand is a Tennessee based artist with a BFA in Photography from Austin Peay State University. He works almost exclusively with found photography and vernacular images to explore memory, the passage of time, mortality, and the photograph’s role in …

Greg Sand is an artist who explores the issues of time and death. He produces work that addresses the nature of photography and its role in defining reality.

Remnants is a series about recollection and remembrance. Each ‘remnant’ in the series is composed of three found photos – each from a different point in the subject’s life – that have been cut into strips and woven together to form a portrait of a person who has passed away. Remnants uses cloth as a metaphor for memory. As Peter Stallybrass writes in Worn Worlds, “The magic of ...

Echoes explores the struggle to retain a lucid remembrance of lost loved ones. This series uses found photographs of people next to water in which the figures have been removed and the images have been inverted. The subject becomes the reflection of the subject; the physical becomes the spiritual; the sky becomes the water, a symbol for transformation and change of state. What remains is an ...

Greg Sand is an artist who explores the issues of time and death. He produces work that addresses the nature of photography and its role in defining reality.

In Chronicle I combine 1/2” and 1” square pieces cut from found photographs to examine the fragmentation of memories. When recalling our childhood, we may remember the shoes our father always wore or the way our mother held her hands: a part represents the whole. Photographs function in a similar manner. They do not show a whole person or an entire life, but instead capture a single moment ...

Traces is about memory, the passage of time, and the photograph's role in shaping our experience of loss. This series was created by removing the subjects from found photographs. Like the memories of passed loved ones, the reflections and shadows that remain vary in distortion and degree of clarity. These photographic mementos of the departed are left as only vestiges of the lives they once ...

In Chronicle I combine 1/2” and 1” square pieces cut from found photographs to examine the fragmentation of memories. When recalling our childhood, we may remember the shoes our father always wore or the way our mother held her hands: a part represents the whole. Photographs function in a similar manner. They do not show a whole person or an entire life, but instead capture a single moment ...

In Chronicle I combine 1/2” and 1” square pieces cut from found photographs to examine the fragmentation of memories. When recalling our childhood, we may remember the shoes our father always wore or the way our mother held her hands: a part represents the whole. Photographs function in a similar manner. They do not show a whole person or an entire life, but instead capture a single moment ...