Left Missing
Left Missing
The picture on the left, might be missing but also the original albums
these black pages came from, the order in which they once were, and the
context , the full context, of who are these people, how are they related
and where are they coming from. In some way left missing is the left overs
of other left overs. For a while now I’ve being collecting found footage,
discarded images that once belonged to family archives, and repurpose them
giving them a new meaning and a place in my own work. Many of the black
album pages are useless in a way if not taken apart and the images used
separately. I was discouraged from breaking them apart but also didn’t know
exactly what to do with them, so they were left aside. Now that they have
accumulated into a critical mass I started seeing how I can insert myself
into this very specific, already made, compositions of someone else’s
history. The images that didn’t make it through time, fell apart and got
lost and are now missing from the black album pages essentially left the
door open for me to play off of these partial compositions. Furthermore,
the cut out text strips that once made a clear sense in the context of a
certain family but now these fragmented pieces of discontinued memories
make a new sense in a photo fantasmic context.
The picture on the left, might be missing but also the original albums
these black pages came from, the order in which they once were, and the
context , the full context, of who are these people, how are they related
and where are they coming from. In some way left missing is the left overs
of other left overs. For a while now I’ve being collecting found footage,
discarded images that once belonged to family archives, and repurpose them
giving them a new meaning and a place in my own work. Many of the black
album pages are useless in a way if not taken apart and the images used
separately. I was discouraged from breaking them apart but also didn’t know
exactly what to do with them, so they were left aside. Now that they have
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