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Object of My Imagination

Photography by 2nd year photography students
6 - 14 November 2002


 

Review
by Louise Thompson

Under the subject Photography Workshop 2, innovative tutor Karen Donnelley presented her students with a box. Hidden inside on squares of numbered paper, was a hint of their photographic journey for the spring semester. Drawn at random, each number lead to an object, which was to be the focal point of their forthcoming journey.
 

   
 
   

Like a lone traveler in a foreign land with rations far and few, this object was to be approached with an open mind. So was born, The Object Of My Imagination.

Leaving students mystified, entertained, or simply lost for words, the items cooked up quite a feast of feelings upon initial interaction. Although each revealed an exterior story, the information contained was locked away, revealed only by the key yet found. With each shoe, book, glove or undesirable handbag came the power of imagination, and a ticket to a challenging journey of self-discovery.

The above in mind makes viewing the resulting photographs somewhat admirable. For each object awakened a sleeping imagination, a storybook, the road to which for some was a mountainous terrain, others as smooth as sand.

Pleasing the eye, these photographs acknowledge the world we knew as children, the power to dream; something so many of us feel is lost in age. Proof is had through a consistent flow through all of these works: the power of the mind is something never lost; all it needs is a little ignition.