Work in Progress

For one of my finals this semester, I had to create a gallery proposal. I had an idea for a while to cut out a shape from the photograph as a way of displaying holes in memory. Part of the idea came from my psych book: "Most of the time, people want to believe the remain the same, but sometimes they also want to believe they ave changed, and they shuffle and edit the facts in their memory to fit whichever belief is more relevant." After experimenting, instead of one shape being cut out, it evolved into several and I also started to put things behind it, like patterns and colors. It evolved to the photographs being filled with holes and in turn being filled with gaps and revisions of my memory--the places I've been, people I've known, things I've eaten, etc. (a lucky accident because I forgot to bring magazines to cut up.)



I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I would love to make large versions of these, since these are just models. And to keep experimenting and growing with this method.