On dust: Memory as performance

By Natasha Lushetich

My other module photography and visual culture has allowed me to visit some interesting concepts on Dust and how it ties in nicely with my work on memory and photography, here are some interesting ideas from Natasha Lushetich work which I will explain how this works nicely.

Difficult to clarify triggers confusion and uncertainty- in terms of my project it allows me to question wherever sometimes memories can be blurred when we see photographs the dust may present the past and this is how it may trigger confusion, The dust works as a barrier.

Instrument of chaos

Dust gathers in the absence of movement action and interaction it may enable memories as what is covering revealing the truth and could as reveal a specific story from an image.

Dust both creates past traces in a manner that dosent impose its presence- could we link its past presence with past memories? the dust represents the memories that we leave behind. Say each layer of dust is built up over a number of years the longer we leave it the more distant our memories become.

Another way to describe dust is a process or formation that activates nostalgia- the dust can represent time that something / images have been left.

It represents the past the perception of what could of been. Relationship between dust and what it covers- Is the dust acting as a barrier to let you in and experience your own personal memories with what the dust is covering/ hiding?

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