Untitled (Fragmented Memory)

This end of level 6 artwork at Staffordshire University continues to explore how memories change over time. It utilises the action words 'fragmentation' and 'fading'. I picked out a past photograph from a trip to Ilam Park depicting a casual moment/event with people walking in a landscape. These are the peaceful moments I like to depict sometimes. On ninety-nine MDF panel pieces, I painted the photograph and one piece, in colour, on a bigger panel, with the rest painted in blurry tonal colours. That represents a 'ghost' of the memory with one piece out of a hundred remembered, while the rest are scattered forgotten and lost. Some have even been placed in new multiple formations, creating new forms, as blankness in memories can form fictional thoughts. Use of levels represent status of what is remembered or forgotton. The layout of the paintings make the work 3D as well as 2D. The scales of the pieces make the work to be viewed from both a distance and up close, both looking straight and downwards.

After this exhibition, I was asked to exhibit this artwork again in the DR19 exhibition, later on in 2019. Only the fragmented pieces were asked for, without the large MDF painting. This put the artwork in a slightly different perspective. The pieces can work alone in expressing the loss of memory. The outcome of this work was more 3D which made the work more needed to be examined closely and far away again, as I hoped. It connects with the old, weathering layout of the exhibition space, including the temporary white walls that won't last, like the small details in memories. I continued presenting the pieces all level-headed to represent pixelization in photography and the loss of memory with the different statuses.