For my project Proof I, I invited the most important people in my life to participate: my parents, relatives, old lovers, best friends and others. I made arrangements to meet them, perhaps at their house, a coffee shop we had frequented, or perhaps the place where we first met.

I gave each a video camera and asked, “If I were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, and you could have any part of my life, what part would that be?” A part of my life could be anything I own, an individual characteristic, or perhaps one of my experiences. Then the person holding the camera, one of those people I am very close to, would answer the question while filming me, and perhaps the camera would shake when they heard my question. My subjects did not know what I would be asking before the session started, and I had no way of knowing what they would answer, so my immediate response was recorded on the video.

For the second part of the project, I asked the same participants what they would leave me if they were to disappear. Perhaps it would be scenery they had enjoyed, music they love, a favorite scene from a movie, or some object they own. I then used various methods to recreate the moment that the participants described, so it feels like we are returning to the place where the memory was created.

“Taking and possessing part of my life” is a central proposition in this work. The part taken would not necessarily be my favorite, but perhaps something I have never considered before. The part given by the participants wouldn't necessarily be their most precious, but would have a deep connection to me. Our connection and history would be reestablished in the process of this exchange.