When we travel our mind collects images of places and people. As time goes by, certain images fade; others become more vivid.
This is the process of RE-COLLECTION.
Memoryscapes are visual collages, composites of the images that float and overlap in my mind as I look at images that send me back over the places I have traveled.
Instead of arranging these images in a sequence – constantly shuffling looking for the right order – I decided to merge them together.The result are my Memoryscapes, after-images at the intersection of my photography and my own memory. They combine a documentary element – being rooted in the activity of recording what I see – with an imagined view of the world. In this sense, they are like dreams, where proportion and foreground are not literal but emotional records.
The works in the Memoryscapes series are created using photoshop. The sources are slides (scanned), photographic negatives (scanned) and digital images from my life at home and my travel to different parts of the world.
