The Gallery, Listoke, Drogheda.
Winter Exhibition, 2015.
Forgotten But Remembered III.
This body of work focuses on an aspect of childhood memories; the absence of childhood and the memories we lose as we grow up and as years go by. For Example; not playing with our childhood toys, abandoning them without realising.
There is a sense of beautiful nostalgia within the toys and objects from our childhood, a memory of childhood that fades as we grow up. A distant memory that had been beautiful. Now there is a sadness as the toys and objects are not being played with anymore and are left to deteriorate. There is a discomfort and eeriness about it. The toys have been abandoned by the children that once played with them.
My photographs have been taken at night to exaggerate the sadness the toys may feel (if they had emotions) when abandoned by the children and also because the darkness creates a sense of absence and loss of childhood innocence from an adults (myself) point of view, An adult that is reminiscing on their and trying to reconnect to the past.
There is a sense of beautiful nostalgia within the toys and objects from our childhood, a memory of childhood that fades as we grow up. A distant memory that had been beautiful. Now there is a sadness as the toys and objects are not being played with anymore and are left to deteriorate. There is a discomfort and eeriness about it. The toys have been abandoned by the children that once played with them.
My photographs have been taken at night to exaggerate the sadness the toys may feel (if they had emotions) when abandoned by the children and also because the darkness creates a sense of absence and loss of childhood innocence from an adults (myself) point of view, An adult that is reminiscing on their and trying to reconnect to the past.