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Stained Glass (Tiffany Method), Light Boxes
When we remember, we are not simply accessing an image from our archives but asking our brain to redraw it each time. Part of this means that we alter our memories with the context and background we have each time we access them. The stories can get a little funnier, and the fish you caught might get a little bigger. But this also means that with each passing year, we lose pieces of the past in ways we may never know.
This series is an exploration into how precious memories of our loved ones change in our brains over time using the fragile and fragmented process of stained glass as a metaphor. Each stained glass panel is created using corrupted original photographs of a deceased friend, which are printed onto the glass and re-designed into new, fragile reconstructions. Once created, the original photograph is destroyed, leaving the new stained glass transformation as the only evidence, as a metaphor for the ever changing nature of memory, even precious ones.
When we remember, we are not simply accessing an image from our archives but asking our brain to redraw it each time. Part of this means that we alter our memories with the context and background we have each time we access them. The stories can get a little funnier, and the fish you caught might get a little bigger. But this also means that with each passing year, we lose pieces of the past in ways we may never know.
This series is an exploration into how precious memories of our loved ones change in our brains over time using the fragile and fragmented process of stained glass as a metaphor. Each stained glass panel is created using corrupted original photographs of a deceased friend, which are printed onto the glass and re-designed into new, fragile reconstructions. Once created, the original photograph is destroyed, leaving the new stained glass transformation as the only evidence, as a metaphor for the ever changing nature of memory, even precious ones.