Patriotic Memories III - In between the inside-out

The composition of the following images is done by rephotographing pictures “on screen” that were zoomed in and out during the shot. This action would symbolise a reccurent memory that comes and goes in a forward / backward movement like a tide. It also defines my position as a visitor “coming in” to revisit his own memories and “getting out”. This visit is “pictured” and “traced” by deforming the original photos. The act of remembering could be altered by many factors related to age, social life changes, etc. But a picture, and more precisely what is represented thought it, stays the same ( as long as the picture is well preserved ). Only this time, i altered the stillness of the image itself to illustrate this passage of remembrance by showing its visual manifestation. The results are images that show confusion, distortion, and blurriness ; a ghostly oppacity rather then a faithful photographic transparency, where memory is perceived as an unconscious playground between past realities and present imagination, or should i say “manipulation”. This work is also a metaphorical projection that shows the instability of the political situation in a place like Lebanon ; a country which is always dragged and pulled in and out, between moments of peace and war.

The composition of the following images is done by rephotographing pictures “on screen” that were zoomed in and out during the shot. This action would symbolise a reccurent memory that comes and goes in a forward / backward movement like a tide. It also defines my position as a visitor “coming in” to revisit his own memories and “getting out”. This visit is “pictured” and “traced” by deforming the original photos.
The act of remembering could be altered by many factors related to age, social life changes, etc. But a picture, and more precisely what is represented thought it, stays the same ( as long as the picture is well preserved ). Only this time, i altered the stillness of the image itself to illustrate this passage of remembrance by showing its visual manifestation. The results are images that show confusion, distortion, and blurriness ; a ghostly oppacity rather then a faithful photographic transparency, where memory is perceived as an unconscious playground between past realities and present imagination, or should i say “manipulation”.
This work is also a metaphorical projection that shows the instability of the political situation in a place like Lebanon ; a country which is always dragged and pulled in and out, between moments of peace and war.