Red Rock State Park in Sedona, Az.
copyright 2007 Judy A. Davis
Home through Time Final Video
My ongoing photography project, “Home in Time,” is motivated in great part by the beauty I feel is revealed in the textures created by the effects of time. But my interest in these houses goes beyond just the images themselves. I always wonder about, and have begun to search for, the stories hidden behind the curtains still hanging in a broken window and the cracked tiles in a bathroom and the peeling paint on an old white fence. These were the efforts of someone somewhere in time to create a home.
For me, the notion of home is intimately connected with family, and in taking photographs of old houses I tend to picture children and parents and grandparents living in these spaces that at one time were new and robust and maybe represented somebody’s dream home. I’ve created a video that is meant to symbolize that connection of family and home and the effects of time and aging on both.
I suspect that my video will have a greater emotional effect on viewers of the baby-boom generation than it will on twenty-somethings. Our parents are nearing the end of their lives and our children are making us the grandparents. The Circle of Life. It’s a romantic notion, but sometimes the reality sucks.
(Video below)
My ongoing photography project, “Home in Time,” is motivated in great part by the beauty I feel is revealed in the textures created by the effects of time. But my interest in these houses goes beyond just the images themselves. I always wonder about, and have begun to search for, the stories hidden behind the curtains still hanging in a broken window and the cracked tiles in a bathroom and the peeling paint on an old white fence. These were the efforts of someone somewhere in time to create a home.
For me, the notion of home is intimately connected with family, and in taking photographs of old houses I tend to picture children and parents and grandparents living in these spaces that at one time were new and robust and maybe represented somebody’s dream home. I’ve created a video that is meant to symbolize that connection of family and home and the effects of time and aging on both.
I suspect that my video will have a greater emotional effect on viewers of the baby-boom generation than it will on twenty-somethings. Our parents are nearing the end of their lives and our children are making us the grandparents. The Circle of Life. It’s a romantic notion, but sometimes the reality sucks.
(Video below)
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