MORPHED MEMORIES
He is losing his memories, and so are us
He is his memories, and us
I have read that we all have some degree of dementia, and this increases as we get older. Some have notoriously more than others. Wanting to remember, the nervous signal is trying to reach its final destination, but obstacles get in its way. Loosened connections in the nervous system make memories merge; the desired action loses its initial purpose, and sentences don't follow a grammatical logic established by society. It is a constant search for memories that are vanishing and mutating.
These are some of my fathers memories. Using his achieve pictures, coding and depth cameras, new morphed and fading memories between the present and the past are created. The project overlays portraits pictures of different family characters in his life. The code is mixing the pixels of two pictures at the same time as people reach the portrays in the installation making the image morphed till the point it is not longer recognized, just as his memories.
The project is a reinterpretation of photography. By using a computational system, which works similarly to the human nervous system, this new images get closer to what human life is and our real memories are: they change in time, deteriorate, morph and vanish. They are no longer fixed images, they keep mutating.
The visitor inhabitance triggers, reveals and fades them but also embodies Him as memories will only exist if there is a human presence to perceive them. One day, the light will turn off, making the projections disappear, and the walls will be the only witnesses of all that was lived.
*The installation requires a depth of 2 to 3 meters from the wall for the interaction.
