Odette England- 2012
"The resulting images mythologise my holy land, an inheritance I ache for."
I was inspired by Odette England to create a more conceptual idea of misplacement. Odette used old negatives she had taken on her family farm and attached them to the soles of her families feet. This meant the negatives were scratched, ruined, ripped and all together broken apart, Odette says some "were so ruined they had to be pieced back together with tweezers" Odette used the phrase "The dominant motive for this work is my longing for an idealized vision of home" She wanted to look at the idealist family life and compare to hers and her home.
I am inspired by her work as I like the idea of memories and the past being misplaced. This technique can allow us to try and keep hold of the past in a more materialistic way but also showing how truly daily life can be affected by our actions. This links with how the negatives are ruined by our footsteps and our daily tasks. It could be a representation of the way we are affected by our surroundings and how people can be surrounded with people who are not always what they think they are.
Here are some of Odette's images and the ones that I really think I have taken inspiration from;
I love the way the images are completely different from each other yet both show wear and tear and how we are effect so much from our surroundings.
http://www.bu.edu/prc/exposure/exposure2012/exposure2012_england.htm
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