Andrea Caretto "My Favorite Shirt"

My name is Andrea Caretto, and my work explores time, memory, and a history of touch through accumulation and erosion. 

Through my layered pillars, I preserve and expose traces of lived experience using discarded objects and found materials. Within my favorite shirt, I've included objects such as bed clothes, night clothes, handkerchiefs, cyanotypes, and my favorite shirts from 2003 to 2018. 
These remnants of my daily life speak to intimacy, care, and memory. I'm drawn to warn and discarded materials whose fractures and frayed edges reflect the complexity of our human experience. 

I think within the context of tilting west, the influence of our Western landscape comes to the fore. 
The Western landscape deeply informs my practice. Inspired by canyons and geological strata, I explore preservation and decomposition as parallel forces. By embedding personal effects into my work, I create physical records of domestic and internal life, while confronting a fear of forgetting. 
Like the landscape that inspires me, my practice seeks a balance between decomposition and preservation, between what disappears and what endures.