Ruth Zelanski This Artist's Inventory    Statement:  We track our routines as calendar days lay ahead and behind us, seamlessly blending with the continuum of time and other people’s everyday.Yet where our timelines end, we cannot tell.The journey of our lives consists of many beginnings and endings, most without our control. Our identities are defined by what we leave behind, whether it is corporeal or emotional, material or memorial. Photographs serve as our souvenirs of the everyday.They are memory idealized, a moment preserved. My work aims to be an unspoken narrative, surrogates for events not yet experienced, and an invented symbolism to express our desire for significance in the everyday. I see them as representing the intangible story of our sentiments, mementos and souvenirs, of memories not quite remembered, that are left behind to become part of someone else’s narrative, weaving the structure of loss and hope that connects us all. Acknowledgments and Academic Credits: 1997, Bachelor’s of Fine Art, Concentration in Photography, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Zeitgeist Exhibitions: Right to Assemble (second installment) Artist's Web Site: