Developments

Using Christian Boltanski's idea of memory of an event, I went out to shoot again. This time I focused just on tire marks that had been left on the ground because I had began to notice a lot in the area while walking around. These marks are a man-made impression, left by a specific individual on a specific event which the viewer will never have view of, all they are left with is the aftermath impact to remember it by.

This image is much like the photograph I previously shot which included a tire mark on the road but here there are more visible. The marks take up quite a lot of the photograph which is good because it shows the viewer that they are the main focus, but at the same time I have still included the background to give the viewer a reference of the residential setting that this past event has happened in. 

This image is quite like the first shown above, but here it shows the natural impact of man, with the tire marks cutting through the grass on their 'homemade drive'. Furthermore the viewer can see that the resident of the house noticed the impact their car was having on the grass and tried to counter it by adding some paving slabs, but they didn't cover the whole area which has resulted in tire imprints into the grass. I like this image because it shows how man affects nature, but in a small way. 

I really like the visual affect these two images (above and below) create, especially when viewed together, the two photographs have made me begin thinking about a future project I could focus on in which tire marks in car parks is the main theme. For this body of work though I feel that they don't fit in too well because its all about past memory of events within residential areas, which these two images don't give off. I think this is because I haven't included the backgrounds to the image, which I have in the first two images on this post. 

I'm beginning to think that my projects focus is clear, with me just focusing on car tire marks to represent past memory of events in residential areas. This post help me clarify that I can't focus too heavily on the mark itself (like in the last two images) because the viewer will then loose the sense of the event being in a residential area, whereas I need to keep a good balance between still showing where the event has taken place. The first two images in the post work much better at showing tire marks in a residential area because I have managed to include visual references for the viewer to pick up on to suggest, the marks are left outside houses. The second image in this set of four is the most interesting because it shows tire marks left through grass from a car, I feel like it represents in a small way how humans impact nature which i've decided I'm going to follow up in the next post. Furthermore, the idea of tire marks left through grass continues with my projects theme of things that are out of place within a residential area which create past memory, because cars are only meant to drive on the road not on the grass around the estate, this could also suggest anti-social behaviour.