"Words on a gravestone: I waited but you never came."

On my search for my personal interpretation of 'Silence' I came across this image by Erin Nicole.

After my first feedback tutorial with Liz, we decided that I should look further into Censorship, but this image sparked a sequence of ideas, ones that I feel show a more individual and lateral response to the brief.  I am intrigued by the props and their placement.  The silence of these objects in actual fact creates an endless production of meaning.  This led me on a journey to discover notions of memory and experience, analysing objects as a profound material language and how they together have the ability to voice a narrative.  I find it a compelling thought that objects are overlooked as silent things, especially when left behind or lost.  We often project our silent thoughts and feelings onto them with a found element of sentiment.

This closely links in with my interest with missing people and the way in which they can be traced before the lingering silence.  It is strange how you become immortilised as a description, known for your last known movements, the possessions you carried and wore at the time.  And then there is the family that will wait for you, leaving your possessions untouched for their comfort.

The image of Resusci Annie (above) fascinates me.  The ethereal death mask taken from the body of a young girl found dead in the 19th Century.  Her identity was never discovered and her face was adopted as the universal resuscitation doll.  It is speculated her death to have been a suicide, perhaps a story of unrequited love?

In a bid to piece together a narrative I linked my two ideas through romantic sentiment.

I showed my visual experiments to Liz, and to Sue.  Two of which are above.  I scanned in a rose, a sentimental object to me.  What may be a dead object to someone else, provokes memories for me.  It appears timeless, I really like the aesthetic the scanner creates.  Both tutors gave very similar advice and so I feel set on track.  Although the image is quite nice it feels expected.  They told me to avoid the cliche, to delve further.  The image of the rose already has connotations of sentiment, so the text should be more abstract.  Liz wants to see at least 5images of household objects photographed out of context, and Sue told me to take 10 possessions, capture, and on the reverse experiment with offbeat memories they may trigger.  I can see this project developing continuously, who knows where it will end up...