My intentions for this project were to explore childhood memories through different locations. My main focus was the distortion of the memory, as the older you get the more your childhood memories tend to become slightly altered or fade.

 

I explored a new medium of photo etchings as I was inspired by the print maker, Pete Marsh, who creates black and white landscape monoprints. I choose 6 photographs from my photo shoots that truly represented the locations from my memories. I decided to print on Polaroid shaped paper as I feel that the Polaroid represents pictures from the past which links to my theme of memory. I decided to choose to print in black and white as I didn’t want colour to distract from the meaning. I created 100 prints as I wanted to show the actual fading of memories within my work and with the use of ghost prints I felt that the more prints I generated the more ghost prints I could create. One aspect of my work I really wanted to show is the juxtaposition between the fresh inked prints to the ghost prints because as a whole I feel that it would make the artwork so much stronger.

 

I decided on displaying my prints on the wall I wanted 4 rows of 25 roughly eye level as I wanted the viewer to be submerged into the artwork. There is no order to the prints as I wanted them to truly represent the form of memories as sometimes memories happen spontaneously.