Reanimate

This series was created during C19 lockdown using items found around the house including the ‘impossible shoes’ (impossibly glamorous and impractical), the ‘imposter dress’ (an unworn impulse purchase from 15+ years ago), an evening dress left over from a wedding, a child’s party dress and a set of found 1940s colour negatives of women advertising everyday products. At a time when the objects around me took on new significance, I wanted to explore photographically the transformation of objects through the medium of alternative processes. My aim to suggest these objects enjoyed a liberty and life independent of my own. The images were shot on slow speed ADOX film. The shoes and dress suspended with fishing wire and lit to create drama. The colour negatives photographed, edited and reframed on a lightbox. I used a variety of processes and techniques including Lith, Lumen and Cyanotype printing to create the final images. I distressed negatives with tissue paper and incorporated additional found objects including sewing equipment and Letraset stencil as photograms during the printing process.