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Images are memory aids – avenues for recall. My parents have always documented our family through photography and video; they have covered their guest bathroom’s walls in family photographs and filled their cabinets with old home videos, an offering up of their evidence of our existence. These candid photographs and films have become more important through time symbolizing the correlation between past moments and future revelations in me.
Now, I collect and offer up images of my own. They allow me to re-visit past moments and have instilled in me a need to capture future ones. I often wonder if I collect these moments in search of myself, or if it is this search that is the essence of who I am. I think about the people in these frames that I don’t keep in touch with like I used to, and I wonder about them.
The cardboard boxes you see act as frames, sources for light, and transports for the images within them. Serving as a signifier of the unique, sustainable information found within any one particular memory, the light box asserts the image’s presence by illuminating it. It also acts as the housing for all necessary tools to view the image while promoting the understanding that without light, there is nothing to see or to remember. They are to be viewed not just as my own personal memories, but as vehicles for the collective connection that each person has to memory recall and reminiscence.
Images are memory aids – avenues for recall. My parents have always documented our family through photography and video; they have covered their guest bathroom’s walls in family photographs and filled their cabinets with old home videos, an offering up of their evidence of our existence. These candid photographs and films have become more important through time symbolizing the correlation between past moments and future revelations in me.
Now, I collect and offer up images of my own. They allow me to re-visit past moments and have instilled in me a need to capture future ones. I often wonder if I collect these moments in search of myself, or if it is this search that is the essence of who I am. I think about the people in these frames that I don’t keep in touch with like I used to, and I wonder about them.
The cardboard boxes you see act as frames, sources for light, and transports for the images within them. Serving as a signifier of the unique, sustainable information found within any one particular memory, the light box asserts the image’s presence by illuminating it. It also acts as the housing for all necessary tools to view the image while promoting the understanding that without light, there is nothing to see or to remember. They are to be viewed not just as my own personal memories, but as vehicles for the collective connection that each person has to memory recall and reminiscence.
