What has been profoundly important to me throughout my life seems, inevitably, to come down to location: where I am in a particular place, how I respond while I'm there, and who I am after I have left it. These places might include my natal home and locality in Wales; the workplace environment of various commercial printing shops in America; the living room of my marital home in Massachusetts; or a funky, summer beachfront rental on Cape Cod. Whatever the specific location, or the emotional tone or memories, conscious or otherwise, tied to these and other places, I have used subject matter associated with each to make visible how I was affected by the visceral potency of the place. And one constant thematic connection to that subject matter has to do with 'what has been left behind'- the remainder, the traces of what has gone before. I explore this remainder not for sentiment, but out of curiosity, and for enquiry, reflection, comment, clarification, and meaning.

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An artist friend once said, 'in your work you can only do what occurs to you'. I agree with that notion. In my work I find it a useful ambition to try to do only what I consider to be important to me, and much of what I find important is enmeshed in memories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Hanlyn Davies