As has been previously mentioned within this blog, my use of family photography throughout this project has meant that I have produced all of my prints in a 6×4 format to match that of the original image.
Whilst producing my prints in this scale is still an important element for me, I am beginning to think that I have perhaps confined myself to this scale too much. Through the projections of my etching plates I have been able to acknowledge the prominence of the mark-making upon the plate when the size is increased.
With this in mind I decided to print off a scaled up version of an original family photograph to try to decipher the effect this creates in relation to my smaller pieces.
At this scale the renounced quality reflects the lessened capability of photography in the early 90’s, although I am surprised it came out as well as it did. I am quite fond of the slight pixilation which is evident which I feel illustrates once more the blurriness of past memories.
As I think over the majority of work I have produced for this project, I am beginning to understand in more depth why I have produced my work in certain ways. In the attempt to not over think my work too much, I guess I have let it flow in many directions and only now am I fully comprehending the common thread.
I would say that my initial ideas were much more weighted in me wanting to remember the past and the little things that have made my life unique to any other.
Through the development of this project, however, I feel that my work has become much more about that loss of memory and the distance between the past and present. In my paintings, prints and even my projections, through each process the original image has been distorted more and more.
I guess through everything my trying to remember has become more an acknowledgement that remembering is not possible. After all if it weren’t for my family photographs I would not be representing these times in my life at all.
