Removed from Reality

Thanks for setting this blog up, Sam. I am intrigued by your proposal- and totally up for participating in a military game!

My work is usually based on women so my contribution to State of Readiness is going to be based on the idea of waiting, at home, for the worst news. Being so separate from what is actually going on involves a lot of imagination, and is based almost entirely on newspapers, tv or movies. The individual experience is fictional in the mind of those waiting at home, until a letter or telephone call. Even then, one cannot step into another's shoes.

So I am planning to create an image that will be removed from reality several times. I haven't yet decided on the content of the image, but I plan to print said photograph, then scan it and project it. I will then photograph the projection with a pinhole camera (here's where it gets tricky!) using a large-format negative, and then print from that negative onto a piece of transparent material. The final piece should look very surreal- a snapshot of a snapshot, seen through different lenses. Using a combination of old and new techniques should also give it a timeless feel.

I'd quite like the final piece to blow around in the wind a bit, so how and where I mount it will be essential.

I will post again on here once I decide on an image.
Diane www.dianearcher.co.uk