‘Lost Souls’
S troke challenged him
T rampled on his dreams
R earranged his relationships
O rganised his days
K idnapped his future
E xtracted hope from despair.
In this catalogue of works, I have explored my Granddad life, particularly focusing on the theme of absence and presence in his life after experiencing two strokes, one in 2006 and another in 2008. My granddad is now eighty years of age and has been affected significantly from the strokes, which resulted in his loss of eye sight, difficulty to walk and he often struggles to perform his daily routine. For this section of my project I have worked with archival images of my Granddad specifically, showing absence by using coloured overlays to remove or block things/people out of the photograph, which were originally there. This is showing things he has lost and displaying things, which are still present. I will be exploring how it has affected him and his life.
‘Lost Souls’
S troke challenged him
T rampled on his dreams
R earranged his relationships
O rganised his days
K idnapped his future
E xtracted hope from despair.
In this catalogue of works, I have explored my Granddad life, particularly focusing on the theme of absence and presence in his life after experiencing two strokes, one in 2006 and another in 2008. My granddad is now eighty years of age and has been affected significantly from the strokes, which resulted in his loss of eye sight, difficulty to walk and he often struggles to perform his daily routine. For this section of my project I have worked with archival images of my Granddad specifically, showing absence by using coloured overlays to remove or block things/people out of the photograph, which were originally there. This is showing things he has lost and displaying things, which are still present. I will be exploring how it has affected him and his life.