An Approach

Over the course of the past weeks, I have been able to spend considerable time delineating what and how I will approach making of photographic works for this project, Time & Again.

The result is as follows

The Overview

Inspiration:

Knowing my grandmother - the family storyteller and perennial archivist - is losing her memories, and I am unable to be there with her.

Intention:

Developing a better understanding of my family’s history and lived experiences - specifically of my grandmother - through exploring the photographs, documents, and objects collected over generations.

Method:

Address the collection of photographs, documents, and objects as an archive relative to my family’s history. Do not attempt objectivity in exploration. Document the process. Respond to findings via visual means. 

The Process

Identify Lines of Inquiry

Hermit Cookies (as completed for Fall 2020)

• Family recipe with uncertain origin

• First recipe Memere taught me to bake

Summer of 1954

• A version of her I never knew, but now greatly connect with

• Documented herself by photographs for my grandfather (her then-fiancée) while he was deployed in Germany

13 Kelwyn Park

• Memere’s house for my entire life, where my father grew up

• Recently purchased by my sister

Explore Lines of Inquiry

Document the Process

Visually Respond

I also have been exploring digital image manipulation and collage in relation to this project, utilizing scans of photographs from the archive, documents, and photographs I have taken.

Summer 1954, No. 1 - (Feb 2021) Digital collage/manipulation. Written document, photographs.