Fiction is the foundation of discarded photographs. It is the only thing we can assume by looking at clues within imagery regarding the story behind a photograph and why a picture was made. From my collection of thousands of found, anonymous photographic slides, I curate standard projector trays that display various scenes. I give them a new existence, a new place, by creating fictive written responses based on personal experience and narratives I’ve held in my memory over time.

Considering the universal aspect of photographs the written mementos are tragic, humorous, heartfelt, memorable, banal, and personal. Justice’s artwork is meant to bridge the relationship viewers have with photographs through the act of looking, even though the imagery is not their own. Additionally, it is meant to give anonymous slide photos a new place which takes the slides out of anonymity and allows them a new purpose.