diptych, 14x17cm x2
oil on canvas
part of 'postcards from places I can no longer visit'
Working from an archive of my own childhood photographs, I am approaching self-portraits as refracting images of a not-me-anymore.
The childhood portrayed in these photographs is familiar yet foreign, as a look back at it through someone else's eyes, recognising the taken photographs, not the moments themselves. The act of reproduction allows a further refraction of memory, as the children and their surroundings come in and out of focus.
Through the notion of postcards I aim to represent the memory of childhood as almost a far away place, one we might get to relive through old, faded souvenirs.
