dear photograph is this new website that i've been into. i look at it everyday to see the pictures that people upload and the things they say under the picture. some of them are funny, and some just make me feel like bawling because you can sense the regret in their tone.
so the idea is to take an old photograph, line it up exactly where it should be now in the future, and then snap a shot of both of them to see how much has (or has not) changed.
this particular picture moved me, along with many others. it reads "dear photograph, my grandpa doesn’t recognize me anymore, but he still smiles every time i show him this picture. i hope that deep inside he remembers how much i loved hanging out with him. love, laura"
seen here.
dear photograph is truly a beautiful idea, but i think it works better here in america than in singapore. mainly because streets don't change very much here in the states, and when you get down to doing such a project for yourself, you can actually feel nostalgic and better embrace whatever is going on in your life thereafter. with singapore — not so much, since the government changes the landscape/skyline every few years. so unless you own some land that the government is unable to touch for the next thirty years, chances are, you probably won't be able to line your landscapes to the t.
which makes me kinda sad actually. don't get me wrong, i know what the government is doing is well and good, and yay to constant progressions and establishments. but i find that it makes us not have a memory of what was once there in the way that these americans can boast of, and we don't get to develop any strong attachment to our surroundings at all. everything is pretty much touch-and-go.
does that therefore make us singaporeans less sensitive humans compared to our western counterparts?
`duchess twirled
at 11:07 PM
so the idea is to take an old photograph, line it up exactly where it should be now in the future, and then snap a shot of both of them to see how much has (or has not) changed.
this particular picture moved me, along with many others. it reads "dear photograph, my grandpa doesn’t recognize me anymore, but he still smiles every time i show him this picture. i hope that deep inside he remembers how much i loved hanging out with him. love, laura"
seen here.
dear photograph is truly a beautiful idea, but i think it works better here in america than in singapore. mainly because streets don't change very much here in the states, and when you get down to doing such a project for yourself, you can actually feel nostalgic and better embrace whatever is going on in your life thereafter. with singapore — not so much, since the government changes the landscape/skyline every few years. so unless you own some land that the government is unable to touch for the next thirty years, chances are, you probably won't be able to line your landscapes to the t.
which makes me kinda sad actually. don't get me wrong, i know what the government is doing is well and good, and yay to constant progressions and establishments. but i find that it makes us not have a memory of what was once there in the way that these americans can boast of, and we don't get to develop any strong attachment to our surroundings at all. everything is pretty much touch-and-go.
does that therefore make us singaporeans less sensitive humans compared to our western counterparts?
`duchess twirled
at 11:07 PM
