Photographs have the ability to detach original context from the continuum of time, where even the truest image has biases. The constructed images in this series Uncoupling become abstractions where the subject and its origin are unrecognizable and suggest alternate narratives.
Each image represents a decontextualized world where disparate people, places and times co-exist. By layering and re-photographing, the past and present come together in a single image. Relationships between people, objects and places emerge. Some of these relationships are very specific while others are more nebulous and open to interpretation.
The original source material used for these photographs are glass plate lantern slides of the 1910’s and 20’s, created for projecting images. Lantern slides were the precursor to 35mm film slides, which has now given way to digitally projected images. The lantern slide images used have the world-view of their time and place of Western or Colonial origin.
