IN ANTIQUITY, A STORY HAD ONLY TWO WAYS TO END
Digital Photography, Portrait, 15x24cm
Aunt Anna
This diptych is composed of a traditional analog photograph and a digital elaboration. It belongs to a series of works that stems from my family’s collection of photographs, many of which portray relatives who had died before I was born. I scanned the photographs and then substituted a part of the ASCII image code of each photograph with a story based on what I had come to learn about each person portrayed. The text is, in part, the memories that were passed down to me, and, in part, my own interpretation. Memory has the power to alter the past, transforming photographs in a subjective way. My alteration forces my memories to coexist with the image in an unforeseeable and new way.
This diptych is composed of a traditional analog photograph and a digital elaboration. It belongs to a series of works that stems from my family’s collection of photographs, many of which portray relatives who had died before I was born. I scanned the photographs and then substituted a part of the ASCII image code of each photograph with a story based on what I had come to learn about each person portrayed. The text is, in part, the memories that were passed down to me, and, in part, my own interpretation. Memory has the power to alter the past, transforming photographs in a subjective way. My alteration forces my memories to coexist with the image in an unforeseeable and new way.
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