Remnants of Home
Remnants of Home is a public art series created with the intent to have it shown in the window of a downtown business. This series was created over my dad’s experience with leaving home and moving to his nursing home.
This series includes ten images, four of those will be printed on a vinyl banner and displayed in a window. All of the images have a warm filter on them to help give the impression of a warm and emotional memory. Remnants of Home features my father’s glider that he has had for my entire life, and the chair that he sat in the most while he was home. I used this glider to symbolize my father being in those spaces and to give the impression that he can only be there through memories since he is unable to leave the nursing home.
The locations used for this project are places around our house or places he spent most of his time at. I felt it was important to include his favorite locations in order to help him return to them through this series. This series as well as my I am Tim series have helped me learn more about who my father is and to form a closer relationship to him. It is important to me to capture my father’s life and his experiences now, so that I will have them when I don’t have him anymore. While the intent of this project was to bring closure to my father and to help me spend more time learning about who he is, it also helped me get closer to my mother. To My mother spent a lot of time with me taking pictures for this series and she has continued to help me with current and future projects. My hope is that through these images my family will finally start to understand each other and create the relationships we should have made a long time ago.
This series includes ten images, four of those will be printed on a vinyl banner and displayed in a window. All of the images have a warm filter on them to help give the impression of a warm and emotional memory. Remnants of Home features my father’s glider that he has had for my entire life, and the chair that he sat in the most while he was home. I used this glider to symbolize my father being in those spaces and to give the impression that he can only be there through memories since he is unable to leave the nursing home.
The locations used for this project are places around our house or places he spent most of his time at. I felt it was important to include his favorite locations in order to help him return to them through this series. This series as well as my I am Tim series have helped me learn more about who my father is and to form a closer relationship to him. It is important to me to capture my father’s life and his experiences now, so that I will have them when I don’t have him anymore. While the intent of this project was to bring closure to my father and to help me spend more time learning about who he is, it also helped me get closer to my mother. To My mother spent a lot of time with me taking pictures for this series and she has continued to help me with current and future projects. My hope is that through these images my family will finally start to understand each other and create the relationships we should have made a long time ago.