DERIVATIONS
Universally, women are central to the maintenance and vitality of cultural heritage and diversity. Women’s roles in the transmission and creation of living cultures through their everyday struggles are still to receive the attention they deserve.
Women have always been intrinsically linked to the still life genre, Derivations delves into familial cycles of growth and decay by examining the personal history of a photo album, not concerned with the domestic per se but rather the narrative, the passage of time, and what has gone on in it.
Repurposing images from the family album and merging them with Still Life images of organic forms creates a dialogue between the two, examining the formal relationship between history and separation, loss and renewal. The women of Paisley are of huge significance and importance to me; however, it is my hope that they reach further than the individuals in front of the lens. By modifying these moments, Derivations reflects on the legacy of early 20th century.
‘……for not only are we as sisters, wives and mothers the guardians of the future, we are also the custodians of the past’.
Eunice Guthrie Murray 1920.
