Ships That Pass 2005
I see the work I having been producing over the last couple of years using SLR cameras as projectors using torches as a light source, as a way of reconstructing images from my grandfather’s collection. I have been using transparencies that remind me of the stories that have been told about my life and his. I know from the images and from anecdotal evidence, that when he and my grandmother travelled to India in the year before he died that they passed through the Suez Canal and stopped off in Aden. I have no memory of that experience as I was not present, but through looking at the transparencies I have a sense of being there. The images are burned into my autobiographical memory. I have tried to convey this sense in some of the work produced by using these imagesAdd your content here