The role of time and its imminent disintegration, the loss of information, and the loss of memory itself becomes prominent when one considers an object from an archive, and my point of departure for the Saudade project was strongly influenced by this idea. Considering the fact that I could not in any way authentically experience […]
Month: September 2017
Things that express the essence – Masaaki Oyamada

I believe that the essence of a person is defined not by his or her various life experiences or career, but by much simpler things such as what he or she thinks and why he or she chooses to live. Those are the easier parts to identify who the person is. In the last project, […]
The life of an archival object – Christopher Squier

By Christopher Squier While working on this project, my thought processes have adapted from thinking specifically about the loss of vision and hearing, as described in the archive letters, to looking at forms of decay and degradation on the photographs themselves: weather marks and natural acids that have created colorful ‘blooms,’ like nebulas or fireworks […]