CART351: Week 9

This third project took me a while to get a good developed idea. After going through all the numerous data possibilities, I decided to use slides (des disapositives) since my parents kept shoe boxes full of them. The slides I took date to before I was born, pictures my mother took. I thought it would be interesting to use older data instead of taking my own pictures with no purpose behind them and get them put into slides. They are pictures that both my mother and father took before and after they met around my age.

Following the idea of using slides as my collected data, I attached them into a curtain. I got inspired from other projects done with slides like lamps/lights. Returning to the idea of the curtain, it is to be placed inside a home and not in a public place to show the privacy of the images. When the curtains are closed, it brings the viewer close up in this personal and private space. Though when the curtains are open, you get a sense of the more social side of the piece but also becomes more of an object(curtain) than actual pictures (slides).

I used a total of 140 slides. I had to drill in 8 holes on each slide and tie them each with individual piece of string. It is a very long and tedious process that takes patience but I am happy about the result.