sunrise memory

My project is from a collection of over 400 archived slides I found in my fathers house.
They are from the 1950’s -1970 when my father was a pilot in the military. Many of the slides are scratched and mounted on glass with thick almost bakelite plastic frames.
My father was away for long periods of my childhood, looking at the slides I found myself immersed in visual stories that had never been told.
The first images I chose to reproduce were iconic hero pictures of planes and military ranking but then I switched to the human element- Images of faraway lands and different cultures , images that old photos can almost haunt in their truthfulness.
I chose many from Nizwan in Oman , printing the images on large scales on to canvases, cutting around figures and sewing them on to clean canvases. I drew over images, masking areas less intense with spray paint in a graffiti style. I wanted to visually pull out the images onto the canvas.
The project evolved , leaving behind the uniform and embraced the personal discoveries and memories that make us who we are, often unrecorded and kept secret.