David suggested I take a look from a clip of 'Life on mars' after I described my project ideas to him. Unfortunately I had not watch the program myself, but David owns the box set. So found me a clip in series one episode 8, where the main character is watching a moment of his past. During this clip his Mother and Father are dancing, and at the end of the scene he talks to his former self stopping him from following his Dad into the woods. Along side the clips the song 'Life on mars' By David Bowie plays, which fits in perfectly with the scene itself.
The clip gave me the idea that your memories are forever being replayed in the past, like an imprint of what has happen has been left in the place on which it happened. You often see this concept in films when a characters returns to a place that holds a strong memory of there former self, seeing in front of them a ghost version of what once happened to them.
this has given me two ideas towards how to present the project, as I want to focus on photograph I had the idea of during any scenes I photograph the people in that scene would be faded as though an imprint of them has been left behind. Some could be more faded then others to show the time in which they were once there. They get more faded with time. The other idea was instead of faded photographic images, I could involve illustration in to my photography and have blank faced line drawings of people in the images as though a small part of a person had been left behind.
As I want to link the theme to my own childhood and memories, the images of people in the photographs would represent myself.
'What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.' ~Cynthia Ozick
This is a quote which i found which I feel relates well to my ideas, and could be a starting point for the postcards.
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