The artistic and theoretical foundations of my graduate work summarized in this creative component provide supportive narrative for my thesis exhibition, "Memory: Beauty, fragmentation and Image." This written element acts as a synthesis of my research topics, related inspirational artwork and personal artistic techniques and ideation. It also functions as an extension of the exhibition of photographic and integrated media art displayed at the Somerset Gallery in Ames, Iowa from April 1 to April 30, 2011. The artwork presented in this exhibition addresses the common theme of remembrance and memory conveyed in subject selection and through the layering of visual elements and objects.