Mid semester review
I presented the tea bags that I d printed on, exploring and examining that one photo of me and mum in different ways- zooming in, blurring, focusing on our faces/hands. I mounted them on paper,
the body cast I had made out of the dyed muslin and some packing crates with tea
bags on them. What was successful and seemed to resonate with people was the
delicacy of the tea bags mounted individually and directly onto the wall. Not
needing the paper background/frame.
Them spaced well in the gallery was it! But
it wasn’t enough and so the next journey began. What could compliment or
enlarge upon the ideas and reflections I had explored so far? Thoughts of
memories and searching through captured moments to find traces of people in the
hope of connecting with them somehow or experiencing their essence again. The
next step for me was to refine my search through this one image and print 20 tea bags of this same image but manipulated and portraying different details to highlight this sense of searching and repetitive looking. Then I wanted to go back through the family records and find any videos
of mum – the time based factor adding another element to the search – watching someone
in real time in the here and now living life and performing actions and yet
them still being out of reach. Barthes words of the dreamlike (nightmare?)
quality of searching through images were, for me, translatable to this
experience of looking through family videos.
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