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title = "The Myth of Home",
author = "Pam Salen",
note = "Research Background “The Myth of Home” explores the psychological complexities of home related to stability and loss – as an empty interior. When an interior is devoid of people a personal encounter and a subjective reading informed by both imagination and memory is evoked. An unpeopled interior can pose itself as an invitation for what may become or an echo of loss, and perhaps even an anxiety attached to idle time. In these works, I examine the empty interior as a fragmented space situated somewhere between the past, present, and the future. Research Contribution “The Myth of Home” probes the interior as a space that encompasses the contrast of ideologies and expectations of home. The works portray the empty interior through a series of 35 “untitled” collage images. The images are made through a layered process of making photogram dioramas, photographing the paper models, printing, cutting and piecing together the images. The recognisable, yet incomplete images, paired with the inhabited experience pose the empty interior as an in-between place – as an imagined or realised dislocation or a locale to understand home in an expansive and subjective manner. Research Significance Images of an empty interior can be used as a method to piece together positive and traumatic memories and to gain awareness and a personal relationship to perceptions of space and time. My practice opens up new ways of eliciting memories entwined with the process of recreation through a combination of a mnemonic journey, experimental image making on light-sensitive paper and cutting and folding paper as indices of time and narrative. In the process of making the photogram, familiar settings transform into both intimate and distant forms, ultimately helping to explain and to re-conceptualize one’s own interior space.",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
publisher = "Melbournestyle Gallery",
}