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I photocopied the image and enlarged it a number of times so as to create an upscaling effect of myself with Mum, radiating out from the centre.<\/p>\n
The effect reminds me of Russian dolls.<\/p>\n
If you zoom back in to the centre of the image it looks like this.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I stuck the separate images on a strip of thick white cartridge paper.<\/p>\n I used too much glue, I think and as the image has been rolled up for some years, it retains the shape of its rolledness and looks like this on the wall now:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I rephotographed it the other day and when I zoom into the smallest image of my head I am surprised to see that it looks rather skull-like, my shades looking like holes, as if the image has aged and gone beyond death, like Dorian Gray’s portrait.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I had forgotten about this blue and gold companion-piece I made at the same time starting with the same basic image.<\/p>\n I can’t remember how I made this but I like the quote across the top, the source of which is now lost to me.<\/p>\n In myth things lose the memory that they were once made<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A quick google search tells me that it’s from Barthes’ ‘Mythologies’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n