'Letters to P.J', Inkjet Transfer Letters

A new body of work that has been created with the use of found letters and inkjet transfers. The technique I used for this work can be found on a previous post 'Mixed Media: Experimenting with photo paper image transfers'“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, 1980.This body of work attempts to explore the beauty of physical/tangible objects of communication that is quickly transitioning into new faster and more efficient invisible forms of communication via the digital world. It also aims to explore themes such as family, memory and mortality. Looking at what traces of us will be left when we cease to exist.For more information on this topic, you can read a previous article: 'Why do we take photographs and is social media changing the way we share these images?'