Each composite image consists of a reproduction of a photograph from my Grandmother’s family album.  This is layered with a photograph taken by me and inspired by research into the family album.

The resulting image examines the workings of the memory.  The transparency in each case represents the haziness of memory – in contrast to the apparent physical exactitude of a photograph which is called into question.  The presumption being that the photograph, although physically intact, is open to the imagination when being read and understood on different levels.

The depth of the frame relates to time – the upper photograph represents the present – an object or place existing now but having existed since the original photograph was taken and/or having some significance.  The upper image is transparent and is the memory of that person/people as influenced by what we know of them through the inherited object, verbal stories or places where they once existed/visited.

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