This seaside scene I have little recollection of other than the photo. I don't know where it was taken, but I'm guessing Cornwall, a favourite destination. Sontag said, ‘Instead of just recording reality; photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea reality and of realism’. I find it fascinating that I have evidence of something happening in my life but can’t remember it apart from the photo. I sometimes wonder whether I can rely on my memory at all. Is everything I believe biased into to what I want to think? I used the elliptical motif to hide my brother’s faces as I intend to do in all images involving them. The idea is taken from Hertta Kiiski work in Archive Play. I enjoy using different techniques to resolve this problem!
Me with my brothers circa 1966
