Indi Foerster 2026

Abstract

Recovering from memory loss, I found brief moments of reprieve when I leaned into the natural world around me. This occurred through a desperate material exploration of the forest, searching for meaning and communing with the bodies of trees that resembled my own: splintered and shedding itself with growth. Here you will find my recollection of each knot, of each event, written alongside these painted iterations of bark, as I sought an abstraction to reconcile the ontological–the intangible. I pursued not only acts of remembering, but the quiet crevices between memory and forgetting, where identity is formed, dissolved and reimagined. These painted crevices reflect memoir: They’re disjointed, they’re scattered, they’re unpredictable. They operate not only as a space for disconnection, but more importantly, they become a space of holding. A space for the hypothetical. A space for hope. This tension of possibility asks us what are these spaces that are forgotten? And more importantly, what is held there?