PORTFOLIO - Ramona Ramlochand, Once Upon a Time . . . Ever After, a digital photographic panorama, 2001
Under the digital disney sky, the debris of contemporary life consolidates, piled together into a postcard from the edge. It is all sweetness and anxiety. The natural and unnatural, the real and the imagined, becoming one watery vista.
By the falls I sat down and wept. This is my theme park. An MRI. A junkyard. A dreamscape. A whisper in a loud room. A picture of what the flash on my camera sees.
The work does not speak to the viewer, but there is the shock of recognition. It creates the noise, the everyday barrage of disconnected noise, of screaming images. There is passion – I can’t bring myself to say love – among the ruins. Fantasy. Machinery.
Visually, I am interested in what our society discards and how this leaves us with an apocalyptic landscape that evokes a sense of memory, wavering in and out of focus. The “. . .” in the title refers to the murky “present” – that state that is always in oscillation and unsteadiness. This work is a cyclical meditation, it has no beginning or end, for what I want is to piece together shards of fragments into a narrative.
Once Upon a Time . . . Ever After, a digital photographic panorama, 2001,
© Ramona Ramlochand
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