elanya

I did put up a little mini-statement:

absence & essence

My work has always dealt with issues of identity and memory. My current interest lies in the possibilities created for these by the metaphysics of light, explored through photography-based works using antique projection and optical technology previously used to illustrate these mystical ideas. I am examining photographs and memories as emanations of their referents, in order to question whether some glimmer of the original subject might remain – however dimmed, distorted, or diffused – still containing the immanent essence of that individual.

The source images for this work are drawn from my own archive of family photographs. They have been successively rephotographed: the originals were duplicated as slides, which were then projected and photographed again using a toy medium format camera, before being printed and transferred onto glass plates.