Notes and Ideas for the Research Paper

erosion, dissolving, dissolving memory

things break, things become unfixed, things get lost, things get washed away

forgetting -normal condition of memory - correcting

memory- nostalgia -mental health psychogeography - influence of geographical environments on emotions and behaviours

impermanence  

political landscape

injustice

non-place - flow -moving -dissolving

permanence and stability

psychoanalysis - Freud and Jung

Forensic documentation in contemporary art

Absence- and representation of absence

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's "The Day Nobody Died" -The artists used a non-traditional photographic process (exposing photo paper to sunlight) to create abstract images that challenge conventional notions of war photography.

Effie Palleologu Microcosmos - capture the textures, patterns, and layers of urban environments, revealing the traces of human activity and historical events

touches on ideas of impermanence and transformation

darkroom and its silence

Baraduc – chemical manipulations could also influence the mind of the darkroom operator

The darkroom is also  a laboratory of scientific imagination, a point for the encounter between the physical processes and the non-physical – the unseen

the dynamic relationship between art, memory, identity, and societal activities eventually challenging traditional perceptions through the representation of absence