FAMILY
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
At age 95, my Mother moved and I inherited boxes of old photos. I sifted through them, organized them by decades and dreamed about the past. As the family gathered to celebrate her 96th birthday, we reminisced and laughed over the events, clothes and even furniture of the past. Eventually the time line began to disappear and I realized that family history isn’t necessarily linear. Time, places and people all blended in my collective memory.
Life is basically a series of memories—whether from seconds ago or years ago. Our minds are similar to a labyrinth and photographs help to reflect, create and reconstruct our past. My Mother’s photographs had disappeared from my memory bank. Yet, when I saw them for the first time in years, I clearly remembered the dress I wore, the street I lived on, the other people and events where these photographs were first captured. Since many of the black and white images were photographed before I was born, I can only imagine what life was like for my parents and their friends and family. By combining photographs from different eras, I am creating a visual library of my family’s history for future generations. Now my grandparents are sitting not only with their grandchild, but with their great and great-great grandchild. My Mother is reading a newspaper with a headline about World War II in 1941 at the same time she is laughing with friends in the 1960’s. By combining photographs, I am compressing time and allowing viewers to see the past and not so past simultaneously.
This series references the works of several artists. Martin Parr often experiments with depth of field and renders subject out of focus.The shadow portraits of Lee Friedlander and John Baldessari use negative space and iconic dots to obscure both figures and places within photographic series. Inherent in our understanding of appropriating these vernacular imags is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create another work.
For me, photographs are the main source of life’s remembrances. Our minds see events and people subjectively and photographs sustain that memory. Images are an abstraction of the real experience and as such influence how we react emotionally to our past
FAMILY is about time, loss, memory and the creation of a legacy for the future
แฟมิลี่ "ไม่หายเคยจริง ๆ เราตราบใดที่เราจำ" L.M. มอนท์โก สาวเรื่อง ในอายุ 95 แม่ของฉันย้าย และฉันรับมาของภาพถ่ายเก่า ฉัน sifted ผ่านไป จัดระเบียบพวกเขามานานหลายทศวรรษ และฝันเกี่ยวกับอดีต ขณะที่มีการรวบรวมครอบครัวฉลองวันเกิดของเธอ 96th เรา reminisced และหัวเราะมากกว่า เหตุการณ์ เสื้อผ้า และเฟอร์นิเจอร์แม้ในอดีต ในที่สุดรายการเวลาเริ่มจะหายไป และฉันรู้ว่า ประวัติครอบครัวไม่จำเป็นต้องเป็นเส้นตรง เวลา สถาน และคนผสมในความทรงจำรวมLife is basically a series of memories—whether from seconds ago or years ago. Our minds are similar to a labyrinth and photographs help to reflect, create and reconstruct our past. My Mother’s photographs had disappeared from my memory bank. Yet, when I saw them for the first time in years, I clearly remembered the dress I wore, the street I lived on, the other people and events where these photographs were first captured. Since many of the black and white images were photographed before I was born, I can only imagine what life was like for my parents and their friends and family. By combining photographs from different eras, I am creating a visual library of my family’s history for future generations. Now my grandparents are sitting not only with their grandchild, but with their great and great-great grandchild. My Mother is reading a newspaper with a headline about World War II in 1941 at the same time she is laughing with friends in the 1960’s. By combining photographs, I am compressing time and allowing viewers to see the past and not so past simultaneously.This series references the works of several artists. Martin Parr often experiments with depth of field and renders subject out of focus.The shadow portraits of Lee Friedlander and John Baldessari use negative space and iconic dots to obscure both figures and places within photographic series. Inherent in our understanding of appropriating these vernacular imags is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create another work.For me, photographs are the main source of life’s remembrances. Our minds see events and people subjectively and photographs sustain that memory. Images are an abstraction of the real experience and as such influence how we react emotionally to our pastFAMILY is about time, loss, memory and the creation of a legacy for the future
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