C&N Assignment 3 -Rework
Isolated…
Assignment 3 called for us to write a diary, over a period of time and in writing coincided with my fiancee visit for holiday in August. This set of images come from the sense and feelings of alienation and isolation that I have been feeling over the last 10 months of living in Pattaya, Thailand, why my diary entries overwhelming dwelled on.
I moved here, from Hong Kong my home of 9 years, to set up home and re-start my career as a Scuba-Instructor. However, this move pushed my Fiancée, Anastasya and I, into a long-distance relationship. Although the cost of living in Thailand is much less than Hong Kong the move was a gamble and it wasn’t practical for us both to give up our jobs – and she had a stable employment as a live-in nanny.
The images are self-portraits of me doing thing around the house, doing mundane routine things, as this is the area that I find most isolating. Most of my work colleagues are settled here with their family, so, it is once I go home and engage in mundane things, that you would normally share with a partner, that I am reminded of that isolation. I am setting up a home ready for my fiancée to be able to move once here current contract finish in 2019 and while I am home, I am constantly of the gaps that that her
I did not want to overtly convey loneliness and also, I’m not overly comfortable in taking my own picture and putting myself in the picture. Therefore, I was set a challenge to show my home life and what I am constantly reminded that I am isolated from. Looking back over what I had covered in the course I found that “found imagery” had a large part to play in this project. There are many images out there of me (on facebook) having fun with Anastasya, generally, these are taken by friends or by Anastasya herself – I have some of these images on the wall in my apartment. I have chosen to alternate them with images of me at home as a Facebook photo wall to illustrate how that contributes to the isolation.
The alternation of the images contributes to the reflex of state of mine on