Monday, 16 March 2015

I Sat Smiling. Untitled


I Sat Smiling. Negatives




In this photographs, I really like how the usually illegible text has become blasted with a startling clarity.

I Sat Smiling.



Using Photoshop, I inverted the positive tone of the photograph to a achieve a negative capture. In doing this, the positive memory trapped in the glass test tube becomes visually amplified, which contrasts against the cold darkness of the context. I would very much like to blow up some of the photographs from the series to the size of a poster, and perhaps plaster that poster into a public, where my memories were visible to all.

Fragility of Memory; I Sat Smiling.






While exploring the 'Romance of the Fragment', I embarked on a highly experimental continuation of my work with memory, and making it physical. Progressing from working with metal, I began to write sections of my memories from the layered text onto kitchen towel, and immersed the strips into water and ink. I chose to photograph the memories being immersed in ink so as to symbolise the ink as embodying the meaning of the text. In exploring this, I came across the idea of using ambiguity as a material, rather than solely as a notion. Thus, the photographs and films I produced all have in common materials and fixtures that communicate a weird ambiguity; stripped of all context.