"In THE MEMORY ROOM Patrick Pound constructs an elaborate installation involving found images, snapshots and scrapbook pastings, pinned floor to ceiling. This 'memory room' is the bedroom of a fictional character who attempts to understand and explain the world by collecting it..." ... "The memory room is the bedroom of a character who while trying to explain the world has been reduced to collecting it. The evidence is pasted in a vast array of scrapbooks and albums. Their pages are torn out and pinned to the walls in a manic flow chart of connections from giant vegetables to miniature Tudor villages, from kit set homes to model air planes. The scrapbooks are themselves a model of the world. There are snaps of the rooms of Kabakov, Nan Goldin, Edward Weston, Anne Frank and Captain Cook. There are postcards of Marie Antoinette's fake dairy and photos of fictional islands. The room operates as an archive and a listing device. While the list seems endless, the connections, literally, are. This strange sorting machine has everything from a photo album with braille captions to a collection of twenty six brown things."
The idea i came up with is to re-create maybe a study desk or a corner in a lounge room that some one would have photos up or look at the photo album. i felt incomplete when i thought i would put my final pieces into just this photo album (that my mum resurrected for me!):
i also came up with this idea from going through the cupboards and finding mums typewriter (as shown before) a old clock which i researched and was created in 1969. it still works! so does the radio on it! which could set the scene really well. i could keep it on classic rock 91.5 to attempt to keep it in the era even if it isnt from the 70's/80's which it mostly is anyway. knowing my luck when it comes to the presentation it will be a modern song. eeeep! haha.
so as i said i could either go for a corner of a bedroom/study or a lounge room. all in all, i can imagine both having an area to view these photos... either sitting in the lounge chair or at a desk. i think im tending more towards the lounge as it would be more of a place to view photos. there could also be photos displayed in frames on the side table. but in a study or bedroom desk it would be more personal which the photos are more personal. plus i could use the typewriter in there and the desk could also have frames with the photos in there. i think ill draw some mock ups of how it could look like.
i wish i could take a photo in my head of what it would look like! its so perfect up in there... ill go to draw it and itll look nothing how i want it ... gah!
anyway thats my lightbulb!
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