Natalie Moss - BA (Hons) Photography
Somewhere Between Home and Elsewhere
Somewhere Between Home and Elsewhere explores the complexity of nostalgia, the slippage between the past and present and the visualisation of an ambiguous memory. The work layers here and there, now and then, and is familiar and unrecognisable all at once. The landscapes are fragmented and ultimately non-existent.
The photographs, drawn from my mother’s personal archives and from familiar landscapes, are transformed through digital layering. They reflect the instability and selective nature of memory. Moments are seen to blur into one another, with no clear distinction between what is remembered, imagined, or reconstructed. They are of the space in-between finding and losing yourself.
The lingering emotion of time and place is seen in how the past and present coexist in one scene that is a place of now and then, everywhere and nowhere.
