Family photographs are valuable possessions yet they are usually stored away for safekeeping where they are forgotten. Over time memories begin to blend and overlap into elaborate chains. As a way to explore the past and reach an understanding of how memory changes and evolves I am referring to old family photographs and giving them a new meaning.
This post recounts the evolution of my senior thesis project.
The search for things lost, forgotten, or out of reach has always been evident and important in my work. I am taking this “search” and focusing it on the creation, destruction and evolution of memory. Family photographs represent a moment of the past that can spark a memory, by overlapping and blending these photographs together they begin to mimic the fragmented quality of memory, thereby giving the old photographs a renewed meaning.
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