Project - Colours (2024)

I began reducing my photographs from between 2002 and 2009. My intention was to attempt to express how it is not a single colour that I respond to, but a combination of colours. When I encounter a specific combination of colour they illicit a significant response within myself.

After diluting these photographs to these bands of colours I attempted to present them individually with words that were intended to communicate my emotional response. This was not effective as I found frustration with using words.

Instead, whilst flicking through these collections of colours I found myself being reminded me of loading screens in Commodore 64’s from the 1980’s. I felt I’d stumped upon an accidental but intriguing connection and so decided to emulate these loading screens.

Each brief flash of various colours represents one photograph that I had taken between 2002 and 2009. My initial intended outcome has become lost, and instead I’m left with something that seems to represent some kind of feeling of life - a brief fleeting of events that are fundamentally only important to myself and matter to no one else. Although this reflects the loading screens of the 1980’s, it makes me wonder and even question what loading means in the story of myself as for example, it brings to mind questions of memory, memory storage and recall.