[precedent].

memory project using photo manipulation:

http://prote.in/taxonomy/term/4715

[case as thesis].

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The key, encased in ice, represents the duality associated with perceptions of state mental institutions. The work can be interpreted such that the key embodies freedom from the asylums, only to be held as the ice is melted and the patient is freed. On the other than, the key can represent safety. When the ice melts, the patient's world is unlocked to the overwhelming discomforts of the outside world.

As the project melts, the memory of the ice is present in the liquid water, indicative of the state change capabilities of the human memory.

The installation is based on a photograph by Christopher Payne, featured in "Asylum". The photo is of a patient's poem, written a basement wall in an asylum.

Below is a series of photographs of the project changing state, taken over the course of a 7 hour period.

[program as thesis].

Images from the Program As Thesis assignment are below.

[christopher payne].

In his book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Christopher Payne explores the desolation of abandoned mental institutions, representing them through photographic imagery. The representation takes on a more neutral, passive tone, effectively displaying the beauty of the architecture, the sadness of the ruin, and the complexities of the self sustaining community, yet also hinting at the confines and medicinal nature of the institutions.

http://www.chrispaynephoto.com/

I am interested in using his work as a set/stage/site for the development of my project. Text as site > photos as stage.

[precedent].

Student thesis- crematorium

http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=2535&dop=True&year=2010