I am a retired physicist and researcher in Renewable Energy. I am also a passionate photographer and take daily walks with my dogs in the woods and on the beaches of Northern Ireland, observing and photographing the landscapes and its details and impressions.
The main theme of my work is how artifacts can evoke memories and how these memories are not fixed, but can shimmer, transform, come apart, fragment and fade with time. The memories shown here come from a slice of time when I studied for a MSc in physics in Canada in the 1970s. This effect is portrayed by composite images made up from the artifacts and contemporary portraits and scenes, and a series of variations of each composite. Another series is in the cubist style, to show fragmentation of memories, and a final variation that demonstrates how they can fade and disperse.
Another variation of memory transformation is “Found Poetry”. Here, I use pages from my MSc thesis and transform a plain sheet from this dull, boring, scientific thesis, selecting certain words or phrases and using acrylic paint on gel plates and collage to make a colourful version with selected words that forge alternative meanings from the original text.
www.david-wright-photography.net/exhibition/
A memory, scattered, faded and dispersed, digital, '24 (cover & info)
