FABRICATE is a collective of photographers and photographic artists.
It has its origins in the Lightbox II project run by the Redeye Photography Network
to promote new collaborations in photography.
The group came together in 2012, with a common interest in
exploring the boundaries of fact and fiction in photography
and to make new work for the Look13 International Photography Festival,
opening in Liverpool in May 2013.
In my work for the collaborative exhibition,
I am combining found, anonymous photographs to create new fictitious images
which interrupt the idea that photographs might act as fixed memory.
I want to explore whether imagery can become untethered from nostalgia.
Playing with layered photographic images, sometimes presented on tracing paper,
sometimes on fabric and combined with stitching or quilting, my combinations present
fragmented frames from forgotten lives.
Through their memories and traces, presences and absences,
I suggest alternative histories, possible futures and uncertain pasts.
I enjoy seeing where you are taking your vision these days. You have moved beyond fixed moments in time, and instead are creating a world that is blending fiction and fact to express ideas dealing largely with nostalgia, loss, and sadness. My favorite ishttp://www.pbase.com/ruthemily/image/148073527, which speaks (pun intended) of silence, the inability to express ourselves when it comes to our past. You are breaking new ground for yourself and others here, Ruth.
jypsee - my concept is to provide new images which disrupt the idea that a photograph is a fixed memory. instead, i wish to explore the idea that photographic meaning is fluid and malleable.
Peach
29-Dec-2012 22:06
Your work is so original and I love the depth and metaphorical meaning in the concept of layering...I like how I can create my own story with these wonderful images. Great work.
I'm not sure if I understand your concept (layering images?) but regarding the disconnect/untethering of nostalgia from images/photographs you might want to have a look at http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/snapshotinfo.shtm There's a book on the exhibition and it contains a whole story made up from found photos. In that case, the nostalgia was an invented memory. I love old photos... And inventing stories about them
