WANDERLUST Project
Wanderlust: the wish to travel far away and to many different places
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My personal “Wanderlust” for travel and new cultural experiences combined with exploration into the way in which travel has become embedded in the collective national consciousness provides the opportunity to develop my research into photography, memory and printed textiles. In an era of post Covid recovery our relationship with travel has become estranged and the longing for its resumption provides added poignancy to my research work. In a societal context our connection to our past is rapidly diminishing as the materiality of our physical world and spoken word as communication are replaced with digital platforms.
I aim to evoke a collective experience of nostalgia, to invite curiosity and discussion about the way we recall past memory, experience and interaction with digitally created images and to consider the value of the physical artefact in a virtual world.
A central focus of this research is an exploration of the connections between analogue and digital photographic processes and traditional and digital textile print technology. I am to explore contexts for an autobiographical Wanderlust narrative, in which both physical photographic prints and digitally captured images are deconstructed and re-presented, the familiarity of which resonates and references one’s own values, experiences and connections with travel and nostalgia. In a digital world our relationship with the physical object and how it is made has never been more disconnected. This project provides me with the opportunity to explore these ideas and innovations as well as the context to ask the question;
I aim to evoke a collective experience of nostalgia, to invite curiosity and discussion about the way we recall past memory, experience and interaction with digitally created images and to consider the value of the physical artefact in a virtual world.
A central focus of this research is an exploration of the connections between analogue and digital photographic processes and traditional and digital textile print technology. I am to explore contexts for an autobiographical Wanderlust narrative, in which both physical photographic prints and digitally captured images are deconstructed and re-presented, the familiarity of which resonates and references one’s own values, experiences and connections with travel and nostalgia. In a digital world our relationship with the physical object and how it is made has never been more disconnected. This project provides me with the opportunity to explore these ideas and innovations as well as the context to ask the question;
How can I communicate the notion of “Wanderlust” and explore memory recall and our relationship with pre- and post-digital photographic references, culture and processes, using both handcrafted and digital textile design and production processes?
For over a decade I have collated over 10,000 photographic images taken on visits to India. I am to work with this personal archive to create a series of works in which my research ideas (wanderlust) can be explored and communicated. My practice in centred on digital craft which combines both digital and hand processes, the output of which is presented as digital one-off artworks. The concept of digital craft, its relationship with making and the transformative possibilities it presents to traditional craft and design is a key research focus.
Wanderlust wall hangings, hand and digital collages printed on luxury velvet.
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