The Actual Life of Lydia Unsworth: Somewhere Between 1982 and 2004 

The Actual Life of Lydia Unsworth: Somewhere Between 1982 and 2004

"The Actual Life of Lydia Unsworth: Somewhere Between 1982 and 2004"

A photographic record of my existence. Each and every negative in my possession contact printed and arranged in chronological order. Something about the reduction of a life into a few srcaps of visual evidence. Are these memories even memories anymore of merely pictures of a person or persons who no longer exist? How can something as transient as life be recorded? How can we retain what we have already lost? Each image is tiny, 'negative-sized' - the viewer must look hard to see the the individual images within this wall of shadows.
Each sheet of photographic paper is stamped with a stamp bearing the words "The Actual Life of Lydia Unsworth: Somewhere Between 1982 and 2004". As if this stamp somehow authenticates the images, makes them what they say they are. The stamp tries to convince and persuade that this life is real, that it most certainly exists, that there can be no question or flicker of a doubt. But there are gaps between the pages and gaps again between the images on each seperated page. These pictures are locked in the pigment of the paper, light trapped inside a material we cannot begin to penetrate.
Each page is pierced with a nail, hoisted against the wall, these memories hang limply for all to see.
In the end they mean nothing.