I began my project with square collages as i have shown in an earlier post. I used old family photos in the collages and i felt as though the photos were the more important part of them, they had more strength. i have since explored family photos and came to see myself quite taken with passport photos. I find them very unique from the starkness but more importantly the reality of them, as they capture the person in question in their most basic form, capturing them in their everyday.
Seeing a passport photo of a stranger, their is certainly intrigue, however what interests me is seeing and keeping a passport photo of someome you know, its more than having a photo of someone smiling and laughing these photos seem to be keepsakes.
I have for a while now been considering creating an instillation piece, perhaps creating a room. the more i thought aboit it the more the idea grew. To create an immersed environment as opposed to something flat on a page is something i was very interested in. Memories and the way they are formed and remembered deserve to be portrayed as the multi-layered fragments of ones self that they are.
To create a 3D instillation that takes the viewer away from the sometimes cold and clinical atmosphere of an exhibition space and throwing the viewer into a little bit of my world.
