The world you're looking for. Cape Town, South Africa, 2017.
I don’t have children. What remains of my kin is scattered and scathed. When it comes to family, I can only look at the past, not the future. Nostalgia haunts my vision of the present.
This series is a visual attempt to fuse together opposing, intensely personal worlds.
In the foreground, film slides from my father’s photo archive depict everyday scenes from our distant family history. An achingly simpler, happier, decisively analogue world, faded by time. The background consists of pixelised photographs I have taken, in all of the places I have come to call home in recent years. This suggest an infinitely more complex, marginalised state of personal and universal being, all the more splintered in the face of an advancing digital technocracy.
I was curious to see the effect of literally superimposing one reality over another. The concrete past and the distant present. Where words fail, and memory stirs, as if raised from an eternal child’s grainy slumber.
In the end, only a fractured image remains.
