Dear Robert,
Thank you for the feedback and your time last Friday for the Skype tutorial.
Firstly, yes, the idea did come from a diary – the diary was written in August September when Anastasya was here on holiday and the main focus of the thoughts were how much i was enjoying the mundane things at home like laundry, cleaning etc – really focus how much i was missing and feeling isolated from her.
As we discussed the the project has potential and the major flaw that it has at the minute is the use of the mosaic filter which, can over the power some of the pictures and also that it may not be immediately obvious that the filter is a mosaic of pictures collected from Facebook of me and Anastasya.
Point taken on esoteric symbolism, however, that I guess is accidental – I know Anastasya well and know the dishes/meal she cooks. Therefore it seems logical to be pulling that pack from the pile but I agree not everyone would the difference in the nationality of Anastasya or the dish.
Thank you for the reminder that there are few more obvious signs of Anastasya absence I’ll look at those e.g. half empty wardrobe. And as we discussed and as I mentioned above now we look at it in hindsight the mosaic filter is too overpowering and a rather too indistinct therefore I will look at changing the settings to a sequence alternated with a straight photo wall of the facebook pictures