Summer Project

CROSSROADS

One of my many homes.

I must have sumbliminally looking at David Hockney's photocollages when I made this for the summer project. When I took a visit to the crossroads where the home I never sleep in is, I wanted to capture the entire scene but did not have the correct lense. I'm quite glad I didn't as the result is an interesting one. Using Photoshop, I manipulated the segments of the scene. I had to create a new perspective because the raw images together showed so many different camera views.

It was important to me to create this portrait of my home. For two years, since my family went separate ways, I have not lived there. Despite the fact it has been available for me to do so it just does not feel right.

I have horizontally flipped the image. It's strange but I felt like this place was so personal to me that I did not want others to see it the way it really is. I wanted to know that even if they thought they had seen where I live, they had not seen it the way I know it. I wanted to know that even if they had made a judgement of it, there judgement would never be based on fact.

This is not a true representation of my home which sits on a crossroads.