Artist statement
“Freedom of memories” is about showing the different types of freedom in the form of my memories through my life.
I wanted to work on the theme “free” because of the funny dream I had when I was a kid. I have always wanted to be like a cloud. As a kid, I really liked to lie on the floor of the playground and look up to the clouds that is floating so ever peacefully in the sky but yet I am just in this world, not understanding anything but the fact that I just have to live through it and survive.
Through this I have put together the images using double exposure. Since I am trying to portray the image of memories, I have thought about how the effect of double exposure actually gives the photos a type of faded and yet nostalgic feeling. “
Reflection:
After having actually gone through the whole assignment, I found out that double exposure really requires a lot of trial and errors. The fact that I have to go through the many photos i have taken and still have to pick another suitable one to overlay it. Sometimes even when I thought that they fit but when i overlay them over one another, the tonal values that allows certain details to pass through may not be the one that I want. Also, somehow my photo looked like really bright and cheery but somehow it had a tinge of morbid sense to it, kind of ironic I guess since I was trying to make it a happy thing.
It is actually a tiring type of photography but I had fun still. I got to learn a lot of things like manipulation of photography, how I actually frame my photos, the painstaking testing of trying out black and white photos and also learning more about myself.
I realised that my thoughts can be very scattered at times. I struggled through assignment one a little because I was like jumping sort of everywhere before actually settling down and knowing what I really wanted. I guess I really need to focus on a specific subject especially when it comes to photography since a subject can be shown in many different ways.