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Divorced Together

  • Ethan Milner

MILNER These images are a retrospective look at my childhood, my parents divorced when I was 3 years old and then in primary 4 I found out I had a younger brother. He was living his own life in another school, a brother I never knew existed. In this work I try to allow the audience to fall into their own memories of childhood all the while my images portraying my own emotions, memories and experiences of only seeing my half brother and father on the weekends throughout the majority of my life. However, this body of work is not a look back in anger or sadness but rather in great happiness as I wouldn't change my childhood for the world. I am someone who believes childhood and the experiences you have throughout it shape you as a person and I look back at my childhood and cherish it.

My early childhood home, before the divorce, its now gone to ruin with the new owners. Good memories here, although short-lived.
Primary 4 foyer, where I was informed that I have a half-brother. A normal day of primary school that changed me.
The exact location me and my brother met for the first time, the circus was in town that day.
Where I was picked up every weekend by my dad. I would spend my weekends with him, this was the only time I would see my dad and brother.
Where my brother was picked up from by my dad, to bring him down for the weekend.
The tricolour on the lamppost outside my dads estate, when I seen this I knew the weekend was beginning, time spent down at my dads with my half-brother and sister. The meaning of the tricolour to us wasn’t the intended meaning of the tricolour, it was just a symbol of a location where we could all hang out.
The view from me and my brothers bedroom. This view carries a lot of shared meaning between us. Its the little things.
The bedroom my brother and I used to share on the weekends. Its his room now, but we spent a lot of time playing video games in here when we were kids.
A location my brother and I used to hang out at play at when we were younger. We used to climb this telephone box all the time.
Tardree Forest. Me, my brother and my sister spent a lot of time going for walks here. I basically learned how to ride motorbikes here. A special location.
The back garden was the hub of activity when down at my dads. Could have been taking a motorbike apart to clean, playing football or letting off fireworks.
The garage is a special location, when the garage door was open on a sunny day or even on a day when the rain was pouring down we were probably fixing or talking about the motorbikes or letting the punch bag at the back know who is boss. The sounds and the smell of the garage is one of growing up for me.
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