Pimp my Sister

[elanya]

No, not like that, although she's pretty hot - you could make some real dollars. I's just sayin'

But she posted a video of her one-day exhibition for her Arts Practice PHD at the University of Aberystwyth. It is a work in progress still, but you should watch it, and if anyone has any comments/questions/what have you you can leave them here or on Youtube and she'll see them. I don't know if she had a statement or anything to go with it, but I'll see and post it here if she did. Edit: see comments for mini-statement :)

Comments

thanks for the press! :V

[longpig.livejournal.com]

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.