When Jonny Briggs last visited the school he gave us a task. This was to destroy the same image multiple ways whether that’d be done using analogue methods or digitally.

This is the image I chose as I really wanted to explore the idea of loss and only knowing a certain person through photos and stories told by other family members. In the photo is myself as a toddler sitting on my great-grandfathers lap reading a book. As you can probably guess I cannot remember this moment however I have heard stories about him and have used this in my work.

Analogue

For the first image I used water to rub and remove the ink that was used to print the picture of my great grandfather. This gave the photo a faded look showing how the memories of my great grandfather have faded over the years. It could represent my families tears that had been shed over his death.

The reason I covered him in fluff from a dog toy is because he owned a pet cat named fluffy. When I thought of my great grandfather I always thought of his pet cat this wasn’t just the case for this grandparent, I also did this other grandparents my other great grand-dad had a dog called brandy so he was known as grand-dad brandy. This is why I covered him fluff as I related him to the cat he owned,

For this picture I got mud from the garden as well as herbs. This was meant to represent what his life consisted of as he was a farmer. His whole life consisted of looking after the farm and looking after the animals on that farm. This is just one of many things i have been told about my great grandfather and yet again my memories of him have been built up and enforced by others that actually knew him. So because of this again I have covered him with dirt as I remember that he was farmer from other peoples stories however that’s not how I remember him.

In this photo I have cut a hole where his heart would be, placed a tomato underneath that hole and using scissors I cut a crucifix into that tomato. The reason I did this is because out of the many things he grew was tomatoes, my grandmother told me he loved tomatoes. My dad also told me that he didn’t find out he was a christian till very close to when he died. This came as a shock  to him as he had never spoken about this before. This showing a significant thing my Dad didn’t find out till very close to his death. I didn’t want to make the crucifix too obvious as the fact he had this faith wasn’t obvious to the rest of my family.

Digital

In this photo I made my head a lot bigger by selecting it on photo shoot using the lasso tool and using re size tool I made it bigger. I did this because when I looked at the initial photo I thought my head looked massive anyway so I thought to exaggerate that.

In this photo I used the mixer tool and another tool I made it look like my great grandfather had disappeared as I have already said I don’t remember him the same way as others in my family even though I am pictured sitting with him.

In this photo I shrunk his mouth as I have been told by others that he had a very high pitched, squeaky and raspy  voice that was very distinctive. So I wanted to showing this visually using the lasso and mixer tool.