All Our Infinite Tomorrows (2022-23)
This project All Our Infinite Tomorrows Vol I – III combines traditional analogue photographic techniques with digital and emerging technologies, including working with AI image generation. It explores the relationship between memory and the photographic, presenting simulations of photographs generated purely from textual prompts originating in memory. The series consists of framed pieces that include polaroids, digital prints and limited edition publications. These polaroids were created using entirely digital to analogue screen capture, with the starting point being words remembered from a particular moment. Final images were selected based upon their closeness to photographic representation. Rather than indexical, the results are evocations of memory. They are snapshots of what is remembered rather than what was, or could have been photographed at the time. The work bridges the space between inner and outer vision, exploring how memory is psychologically imprinted and described or perceived as photographic. It is created from the space between word and the visual inscription of memory. It also questions the reliability of memory and evolving ideas of what the photographic and its materiality can be at a time of flux, when this medium and its inherent ideas of truth are being transformed by new technologies.
Project Publication supported by Clare Local Area Grant Scheme 2023.