Lost in Springfield: a Crystallization of MemoryThis was a found photograph/installation/mixed media

Lost in Springfield: a Crystallization of MemoryThis was a found photograph/installation/mixed media series I created in March of 2015, that I recently revisited (and re-edited, hence reposting in its new glory).In the summer of 2014 I found a family photo album at a park sale that belonged to the summer of 1969. A family from Springfield, Missouri’s photos and memories had somehow made it’s way to my hands in Toronto. Eventually I used the photographs to create this series in which I investigated the ephemera of the human existence and the glorification of memory. I crystalized the photographs in a physical solvent, as well as crystallizing some items that felt like tangible representations of memory. My series is a desperate plea to make the memory of these humans I never knew last forever, whilst also creating a new life for them. by Cassandrea Xavier -- source link

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