During the process of my research and simultaneous to my body painting, I began to explore memory, and how something as unstable can be make tangible. Giving myself a day, I recalled and repeatedly typed four different memories, overlaying each version of the memory on top of itself to gradually illustrate how memories are malleable, and are distorted over time. By printing each new version of the same memory on top of the old version written prior, I was left with an incredibly distorted piece of text which was hardly legible. This also served to reflect the subject matter of each memory; two being very painful to recall, one a recollection of a night whereby my memory was compromised, and the last a happy memory which in hindsight had many flaws. At this stage I have only been printing and experimenting with paper, however I would like to make these memories more 'physical' by printing onto a surface which will leave an imprint, such as metal.
I was also inspired to use the technique of using literature and layering text by the work of Idris Khan. I love the extent to which he has distorted the lines of the text; engulfing the text in layers of photography.
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