Artifacts is an on-going exploration of memory and found photographs that have been manipulated through a digital technique known as databending. Our lives are filtered through technology and with the advent of digital photography came a de-materialization the photographic medium. Photographs, which in the past were exclusively physical objects, have been mostly replaced by virtual means of sharing through social media and online photo-streams. The original photographs from which the prints in this series are created, are specifically purchased through online auction sites. Obtaining these memories no longer requires physical human interaction; they are obtained anonymously under the guise of a screen name. There is no physical transaction, no physical currency traded for these objects. A few clicks of a mouse and these objects are sent and received not unlike digital files via the internet. Once the photographs have arrived, they are deconstructed, corrupted via an additive form of databending, and then reconstructed. In their final state, these new constructions, though they mirror their original form, teeter between a state of physicality and virtuality. They exist as physical objects, but their contents, the memories, have been distorted and their ability to pass on information has been cauterized.