My work at this moment in time explores ‘The Everyday’ primarily forgotten or lost moments in time. This exploration stems from found photographs from the early 19th century. From these photographs I am reconstructing or re-representing an absent moment or experience that occurred previously. I feel we cannot actively look at the past separate to the present, the past conjures up everyday experiences of the present time therefore blurring the past and the present. I have taken short videos from everyday experiences breaking them into silhouettes and shadows and displaying them as an animation. I feel breaking the videos into silhouettes and shadows de-personalise them and gives them a ubiquitous stance. I am also exploring how images can evoke emotional private responses in a viewer - this is what I personally discovered when I found the photographs. I am also interested in the moment of capture in photography and I question whether the captured image or frozen moment portrays a true representation of that moment in time. For a further reference to time I shall display my animations on optical devices from then and now.
Further themes throughout my work-:
personal narratives
historic
romantic
nostalgia
analog
motion
relationships
self awareness
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