While on the subject of fragmented memory or false memory, I remembered something I had heard about in a youtube video once. The channel Vsauce, handles difficult life questions and tries to break them down to find an answer. In particular, this video was about deleted files. The picture above is part of a collection by a photographer called Melanie Willhide, which came about after her laptop was stolen and later recovered to find her photographs deleted. She used recovery software to get the photographs back, but they were corrupted in a very visual way such as the one above. She later used them in a collection which she named after the thief, Adrian Rodriguez.
Another from the collection:
This got me thinking about how fragmented memory could be used visually, and an idea struck me that I think I could use for the photograph series portion of the Reflections unit. I feel that I could perhaps take the same photograph 5 times with details of it changed to show a confusion over the reality of a moment in memory, or I could use a post-processing technique similar to the result of the accidental corruption by Rodriguez, and in a similar fashion use the same photograph five times and digitally distort parts of the photograph as if there is data missing like fragmented memory.
I think this could be a really interesting concept if I did it properly, though this idea may require more development and research.
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