Places In Memory

Last weekend I did a few tests on the previous idea of joining images together from different places. I was struggling to see how this would work in a practical sense and so I wanted to give it a little experimentation before I went out and took my photographs:

Although the blurring on the edges was just a quick job, I feel it necessary to say that I won't be doing it like that in the final result. From this quick experiment, I know I'll have to show the edges of the photograph somehow to allow the viewer to make sense of the fact that parts of the room they are looking at are from different images together.

Another element I want to try and add is photographs from my own personal family collection. Since this originates from my own past, I think it would be a good idea to use old photographs as part of the final pictures.

I have also had perhaps an idea about my presentation of these images. I was thinking that once I had created essentially five rooms made from all different pictures of places, I could draw out a blueprint of a house layout which includes the elements you see in the photograph. It would be an interesting way of displaying a distorted house, and maybe it would help the audience grasp the concept, especially if I centred the images around this blueprint so that they could be viewed together in one go.