unit 2: context
Visiting Archives : The Museum of the Mind
I was thinking about how I could position my work in relation to archives.I visited the museum of the mind to look at how memory, fragmentation, and missed moments relate to personal and collective archives.
Visiting the Museum of the Mind really stuck with me. Seeing how people in mental health institutions used art as a way to process their experiences made me think more about my own practice and how I use photography and sculpture as a form of catharsis.
Much of the work in the gallery was a way to process internal chaos and disconnection, something I want to do in my own work.
This has led me to explore my own presence within my work more physically. For my Unit 2 project, I’m experimenting with photographing clay imprinted with my own handprints, layering touch and texture into the images. This feels like a way of leaving something behind, capturing both absence and presence in a tangible way.
To begin to explore the idea of using clay in this context, I tested out some work by creating some clay tiles. Some with the intention to print photographs on, and others to test out using hand prints as a way of representing some of the physical feelings that come with having an ADHD diagnosis, the frustration of not understanding, or feeling like you need to get out of a situation. It is important to me that theproject is not too literal, but these initial tests are me figuring out the best way to interlink my clay and photography whilst trying visually represent my experience.
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