Jane Boyer

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July 5, 2022 • 1350 × 1800

'Deep Looking' in colour

As this project develops one of the things I enjoy most is working with the strange colours of the vintage image. These colours are uncanny and emotive. They seem almost tangible. They are the supercharged colours of memory when our past collides with our present moment of seeing.

Deep Looking is about seeing with memory. When we see our sight takes in the scene in front of us. Objects move in and out of focus in the space they occupy as our eyes scan what is in front of us. But seeing with memory doesn't work this way. Fragmented images come and go in our mind. They evoke other sensory traces, like a fragrance for example. But perhaps most significantly, they come unbidden and take us by surprise.

I use my iPhone camera to scan old photographs that I have collected over the years. When something makes me pause as I look, I capture the image. This pause relates to my own memories being activated as I look at the vintage photograph. The images I create are ambiguous, and while I can't remove my own way of seeing from them, I impose no specific narrative on them. They will mean something different to everyone who sees them.

See black and white images from the project in the ‘Gallery’ tab.

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