Tommy Feiler

Wellington, ON

Booth 218

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Memory Lost is a project built from anonymous Super 8 home movies that I purchase on eBay. I scan the film frame by frame, looking for the small moments that pass unnoticed at normal speed. I isolate those frames and transform them into large-scale photographs, attempting to recreate the way memory itself comes into focus imperfectly. From a distance, the image reads as a photograph. Up close, the halftone pattern and text appear. The halftone pattern breaks the image into fragments, reflecting the way memory fades and breaks apart, while the text imagines what the people in the image might say if they could see themselves today. In the end, the work becomes an exploration of memory and memories lost.

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