a look into my journal

[This was an assignment for a class. We were asked to create a photo montage that highlight the two axis as well as using no audio (no music) so that we could concentrate on the time flow as well as the thickness of each narrative]


artist statement:
The images put together are a look into my journals/scrapbooks about specific moments in my life that I have thought about recently. Many of these images are from my childhood and from when I was in secondary school. During these instances, I was unaware of “time”; what it really means; and the years have passed so slowly but now they’re gone in the blink of an eye.

In this photo montage, I write about memories and how I desperately cling onto them to tell myself that I’ve lived through harsh moments before and I can do so now as well. I also pieced newer photos of myself to my childhood ones to further contrast how different my life has become; maybe in the past others, grown-ups, have helped me with everything but now, I am suddenly the “grown-up” and picking up my own mess which is why I’m alone in the newer photos; signifying a sense of freedom, growth but also a new kind of loneliness.

This photo montage was made to give myself encouragement to keep going, realising that things keep changing and changing and we all grow without even noticing. Many of the friends I am pictured with in my older pictures have also grown in their own magnificent ways; with social media, I see how their lives are currently and I am suddenly forced to compare how they were (and myself) when we were younger to how we are now.