Sunday, 2 February 2014

You will become as we are

After looking at Raya and Grosz's pieces it influenced me to make some work in a similar way.

I've decided to use Victorian and early 20th c. Era photographs, I feel they have a certain atmospheric quality. They appear more frozen in time, Perhaps photographs were more of a special occasion back then as the commodity wasn't as readily available or as disposable in contrast to our social media and "selfie" era. As a result they dressed more formally for the photos which make it more poignant with a touch of melancholy when it dawns on you that the people you see are long gone.. Is this photo in which I have of them the last image depicting them? Of their existence? 

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