In September 1911, Massachusetts Governor Eugene N. Foss subjected the Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works to a raid targeting the twenty-five Polish immigrant women who worked its core rooms, shaping sand molds in extreme heat and carrying out labor essential to machines the company sold. The raid gained national attention.

Each year the foundry produced a catalog of its machinery. The catalog of 1911 was produced like any other year. The catalog survives. The women of the foundry and their stories did not enter the historical record in the same way.

Machine Memory explores this uncertain space between memory and history, and asks what accumulates, what erodes, and what remains when we can no longer tell the difference.

The paintings in Machine Memory are derived from catalogs published in 1911. They do not reproduce those images. They translate them, suspending each work between emergence and dissolution through early Renaissance underpainting techniques. Monochrome foundations remain exposed. Color accumulates selectively. The surface holds multiple temporal states at once.

Together, painting and sculpture, trace the fragmentation of time and the difference between absence and erasure, what was never inscribed and what was suppressed or what has simply worn away.