Place

Everyone has a different personal definition of place. This definition is constructed by experiences shared at these specific places. Many things can influence a person’s experience about a place, such as the people they were with, the weather that day, the reason they were there or even if they had or had not eaten that day. Our memories of the past are highly subjected to the way we experienced a place. But what if we visit a place many times? What if those memories we to mesh and meld together? The mind isn’t perfect. People misremember things all the time. This causes a type of fiction in the human mind that is remembered as fact. In this way, the past is up for interpretation and subject to our memories. That is what I chose to create my images on.

 I chose to take pictures in the Grand Rapids Public Museum. I have many found memories of going there with family, friends and on school trips. But the museum itself, even though it is in the same place, has changed tremendously. What has moved and what is new? What has been removed and what has always been there. These images took different scenes from the museum and mash them together creating a fictional narrative.