Marcela Paniak
I take English Literature as an A-level and one of the texts we are studying is a play named 'A Streetcar named Desire. This play's story does not relate to my photography work and I wont try and force it, but the setting in the play is named Elysian Fields. When I was browsing on the lensculture.com website I came across this. This photographer had explored Elysian Fields in more depth. Elysian Fields is a mythological place where blessed souls of the dead stay. The photographer explained it like this:
"In the underground land of eternal peace and after death happiness the souls which are devoid of all suffering and desires stroll through the pale meadows surrounded by invisible lira music, poplars and asphodels; flowers which symbolize death, grief, sadness, melancholy, sentimentality and eternity.
These works are carte-de-visite photographs decorated with dried flowers and they show the issue of human mortality, immortality of the images and time passing"
I really like the idea of taking old picture and using physical objects such as flowers to distort them and recreate the image. Its like we are continuously adding to the persons life and in some way we are linked.
Below I have added a few that I like and want to recreate:
https://www.lensculture.com/search/projects?q=sadness&modal=true&modal_type=project&modal_project_id=42465
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