Remains

This project focuses on the act of remembering within a performative frame. Using an old photograph depicting myself and my Nanna (now deceased), I was interested in examining the tension that exists between the physical artefact and the memory of the event. In this project I was drawn specifically to this photograph and how it exists as a permanent reminder of an ephemeral moment. The project is focused on my own inability to remember anything about the photograph. Indeed, “in such attempts to return, photographs do not always disclose clues, nor lead us to the sites we imagine, nor release us from the silences and the ambivalent traces imprinted onto their surfaces” (Kuhn & McAllister, 2006, p.2). . Through this project, I wanted to focus more on a combination of visual art and performance, as I have always had a desire to experiment with visual art in my practice.