Memories are fuzzy at best.
Notalgia preys on those dim recollections,
forming these bright and shiny moments of suspended time.
The result?
A longing for the past --
a past that never existed in the first place.
This project, I titled "Those Days" as a response to Nico's song, "These Days," tries to capture what memories look like outside of our thoughts.
The original presentation of these images were printed to look like Polaroids with lyrics from old and new songs talking about time and memory, all hung on an impossibly long piece of twine.
I used a special (cheaper) lense to mimic a tilt-shift lense, the Lensbaby Spark, and tried to shoot around the Golden Hour, aka prime nostalgia time.
Here is my formal artist statement:
“Those Days” is a photographic exploration of the fleeting nature of existence through intentionally blurred and disfigured imagery, examining how memories are preserved, and investigating our emotional connections, our sense of nostalgia, with things of our pasts. Digital images manipulated post-production to appear as old film are printed wallet sized with faux-Polaroid borders and hung haphazardly along twine. Lyrics expressing the passage of time and feelings of lostness are scribbled into the margins. Subject matter includes both urban and rural barren landscapes and buildings, crafting a sense of familiarity and displacement, with lingering hints of melancholic nostalgia.
