New York: Real and Remembered
29/08/2015 - 04/09/2015
This project stemmed from my trip to New York in the Summer of 2015 when I visited many iconic landmarks.
I documented a day-by-day account of the places I explored with my family and looked into how a place transforms from being simply imagined, to observed and then remembered.
This transformation of place in the mind became the focus for my research. I used my own photographs to create observational drawings, focusing on shape and light and then made images simply from my memory.
I used these evolving images to make a timeline, to show the development of place within the mind, and how the visualisation of place changes with this.
The images range from being very precise, angular, in black, white and grey tones - very literal to the real version of place - to then becoming more hazy, colourful and abstract in the way they depict place.
It could be said that the later, more abstract images are only 'understood' by myself, as they have been brought to life from my imagination and memory, rather than from a photo.
This project then lead me to 'New York: BLOCK' which hones in on the themes of place as shape, and memory of place.
I documented a day-by-day account of the places I explored with my family and looked into how a place transforms from being simply imagined, to observed and then remembered.
This transformation of place in the mind became the focus for my research. I used my own photographs to create observational drawings, focusing on shape and light and then made images simply from my memory.
I used these evolving images to make a timeline, to show the development of place within the mind, and how the visualisation of place changes with this.
The images range from being very precise, angular, in black, white and grey tones - very literal to the real version of place - to then becoming more hazy, colourful and abstract in the way they depict place.
It could be said that the later, more abstract images are only 'understood' by myself, as they have been brought to life from my imagination and memory, rather than from a photo.
This project then lead me to 'New York: BLOCK' which hones in on the themes of place as shape, and memory of place.