Sieving through boxes of timeworn photographs belonging to my grandparents initiated the development of this series of works. There grew a progression of ideas: memory, absence and presence. This was a way of coping with the loss of another grandparent: the loss of times past.
The drilled dots link to ideas of ‘holes’ in my memories and perceptions of my grandparents. The empty void of the outlined figure is a space in which the viewers could insert themselves into the memory or link their own memory to the image. The image of dots transferred onto the timber backing is also another transference of memory. As a memory fades and returns so do the images interchange at different angles.
bridgette shepherd 