Artist Statement
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The content of these pieces relate to themes in Time. I am revisiting my own past by reshuffling the past and reframing the present. I use old zeroxed photographs and newer printed photos to represent the clarity of the present verse the fuzzy memories of the past. I then expand and create one picture using all of the photographs.
In my first piece, “Center Stage,” I took a zeroxed photograph of my father and I when I was a baby. Hes holding me in his lap and I am the complete center of attention. I then took recent photographs of myself dancing and placed myself on the stage/window for my father to watch. Now both myself as a baby and myself as a grown women are center stage, being, his lap and his full attention. Since my father passed away when I was eight, this piece is describing a reframing of the present in my own life. The present (me dancing) is being seen more critically through the past (baby me in my fathers arms.)
“Sand Box,” has the same playful idea. I am revisiting my past through a sand box this time, and although my father wasnt present then, his is now.
The content of these pieces relate to themes in Time. I am revisiting my own past by reshuffling the past and reframing the present. I use old zeroxed photographs and newer printed photos to represent the clarity of the present verse the fuzzy memories of the past. I then expand and create one picture using all of the photographs.
In my first piece, “Center Stage,” I took a zeroxed photograph of my father and I when I was a baby. Hes holding me in his lap and I am the complete center of attention. I then took recent photographs of myself dancing and placed myself on the stage/window for my father to watch. Now both myself as a baby and myself as a grown women are center stage, being, his lap and his full attention. Since my father passed away when I was eight, this piece is describing a reframing of the present in my own life. The present (me dancing) is being seen more critically through the past (baby me in my fathers arms.)
“Sand Box,” has the same playful idea. I am revisiting my past through a sand box this time, and although my father wasnt present then, his is now.