A reflection on the nature of memory, this series of cyanotypes documents the progression of a female friendship from teenage years to middle age. Using photobooth images and snapshots from my own collection, I have physically manipulated them to indicate the degenerative process of memory over the years. Attempts at remembering a shared past are mirrored in the gradual degradation or obscuring of the photographic image. The quotes from B. S. Johnson’s experimental novel in a box The Unfortunates, articulate the unreliability of failing memory. The book deals with the accidental yet persistent nature of memory where the present continually gives way to the claims of the past, most of the novel consisting of memories of the narrator’s dead friend.
Cyanotypes printed on 310gsm Arches Platine fine art paper.
2019
