Memory Artifact-A Reflective Review

There are a number of things I feel that are wrong with this artifact:

1. It doesn’t seem to have a point. I like to give my work a story or purpose, but at a glance these photos just seem irrelevant and pointless.

2. I don’t think I portrayed what I was trying to achieve with these photos in my development process, which directly resulted in point 1.

3. Through my waffling and mind wandering I went off the topic I originally aimed to achieve, which, again, directly resulted in point 2.

I now know not to let myself get carried away with my ideas, and to set myself boundaries and stay within them.

With all that aside, I do actually like these photos as an artifact. Considering photography was never something I had particularly wanted to use before and only went ahead with it because I wanted to try something out of my comfort zone, I think visually they look intriguing. And if at first they might seem a bit unnecessary, at closer inspection they do begin to tell a story. For the gravestones that can be read the audience will think “who is this ‘Mark Smith’? And what made them so important?” thus engaging them, forcing them to collectively remember them and having the desired effect.