Memory is a wonderful thing, that maybe only human can keep, recollect, enjoy and even suffer from. Photography plays such a great role on attaching memories, even reviving them. Enhancing such role, Art not only mimics old & faded look also tries to evoke one's memory.
Some show slowed shutter speed to capture lapse of time to represent one's presence there for a period of time. Art believes that's how one experiences places and moment and the experience becomes one's memory.
Some contains strong ray of sun, odd colors and vivid contrast. Those elements are all for personal reasons yet audience can share simiilar or even revive their own feelings and experiences of the past.
It seems that a certain song can bring back many listeners a lot of memory. For that reason, the song is played and enjoyed by many.
Art hopes these photographs play the similar roles for audience to reminiscent own experiences. Whether it is joyful or painful, it appears that memories are worthwhile to keep after all.
So let's travel back for a moment.
Like drawings, Art is interested in creating images rather than capturing or reflecting what one can see. In that sense, he tries to create the images of past in his memories, everybody's memory.
By creating ceratin style or capturing memorable contents of images, he hopes that everybody can travel back and dwell in the past for a moment.
