Working towards the exhibition!

Well i decided not to use the words with the pictures because I didnt think it looked right in the end, but as i printed and laminated and cut the pictures and words up i decided to do the words separately. I also thought that displaying them on a fridge would heighten the idea of memory... most people use friges to stick their magnets on, like memories from a holiday or something. The words are like the word magnet games you can put on your fridge or locker too so it kind of had that 'create your own narrative' connection with the piece. Here are some photos I took of the process of the work and the final exhibition.

Idea for Exhibition

For the exhibition I've been thinking about how to set up my work and what sort of format im going to have it in. One night I printed out some contact sheets of all my photos that I had taken for the project, i cut them up and placed them all out in a grid... surprisingly i really liked it, it looked well, so i thought that maybe i could present them this way for the exhibition. We had a tutorial with Ralph again and my idea became clearer, I'm going to post all my pictures up like the contacts but with magnets on them so that they can be moved around, while also on a big metal board of course!! People can then make their own narratives from it and place them in different story lines etc, Im also going to have the text up in movable fragments, so there will be a text aspect to the work aswell. Also under each picture there will be a brief description of what the picture is. I think this adds to the remembrance of a memory aspect in which I am trying to encorporate into my work.

Further Developments

Ok so a decision was made about the outcome of the project, because it's a narrative and there are so many pictures, and there is a story with them, I am going to make a book out of them.

I don't exactly know what the order of the book is going to be. I might do two different kinds...

the six word memoir one, which could include the memoir and either one photo or a series of photos on the opposite page,

or

i could juxtapose images against each other, one on each page, so they form their own narrative.

now i just have to decide what images go with what six word memoir and what images make narratives in themselves. also have to decide if more photos are necessary to be taken. I can also take stills from the video footage I have taken.

The video footage is another story. I don't know exactly what's going to be done with it all... they are an extension of whats taken photographically, so I might just create a series of small experiments, and if any video pieces go together really well I might create a full sequence out of those... audio wise....either music or maybe stories being told.? For now I'm just gonna concentrate on the photos, see which ones go well together etc!!