My piece is a based on a memory of my Great Grandmothers house. However i like the idea of the veiwer imagination, i like to think of this piece also as perhaps a waiting room from a different realm where people can come and re-connect with their old memories.
The dated wallpaper an items may seem old fashioned but in this piece it acts as a timeless scene. I have created a wall of a room. It could be a waiting room a living room, it is all perceptive from the audience. The photos displayed are all from different times and ages for instance, there is one of my father when he was about 9 and one of my mother when she was 17 and my Grandpa at 55 and so on. This shows how although times change people and memories do too. people come to look different as do memories.
The table diplayed acts as a slpit second look, giving the feel as though there is a presence. The coffee cups and the ashtray is a setup for the common meseting, as people around the world meet up for coffee chit-chats, to reminice. However again it is all a matter of perception. ‘were people just chit chatting?’ or were they waiting for something else?
The telephone and string attached to the photos, is very important, it adds more questions to the piece. I have used it to act as a metaphor for connecting people to their memories of life with these people.
