Works in Progress: Recuerdos Desechados (Discarded Memories)
In Spanish, the verb “deshacer” can mean many things: to discard, dispose, destruct, to take apart, defragment, or break down, to recreate, rearrange, re-compartmentalize. With this project, I am attempting to do all of these with my old unwanted Polaroids - those I take and think are “meh” or “ok” and am willing to part with, throw away so easily.
Unwanted Polaroids or instant photos are something like our own thought process. Thoughts and images that we do not want to think about at the moment are often pushed aside, down into the subconscious level. Some psychologic theories believe that it is during our dreams that these memories or thoughts come out, when our brain sorts through the mess and re-arranges everything to allow us to move on to the next day.
Recuerdos Desechados is my way of sorting through these failed images, as well as the old memories that are attached to them. I have come up with various processes to break down, tear apart, and rearrange these images in another form to completely obliterate their former purpose and to create a new one.
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Recuerdos Desechados is an ongoing project and will be a part of my first art exhibit, Memento Momento, a humble exposition at La Calabaza Mecánica, a bar in downtown Rota, a small fishing village in southern Spain.
The inauguration for Memento Momento will be on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 9:30 pm, Central European Time.
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fuckyeahrenee said:
naiiiice. what the fuck man. GIVE ME ONE. It will forever be hung up on a wall in my home FOREVER.
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