Final Major Project

Work in Progress for final major project. Needs a title to contextualise it.
The work is based around my childhood family holidays, three places in particular,
Seaton, Torquay and Dawlish. I have a poor memory of these places so my intention is
to re-explore these areas in which I have the original photograph with me but never present
in the photograph, keeping the original from the viewer, referring to Roland Barthes and 'The
Winter Garden' image of his mother. These hotel rooms are not the original places I stayed in 1992, but are important as my use of them is more about examining the spaces and the utilitarian nature of the hotel room and how it functions within the holiday. My work usually
focuses on 'self as subject' but I have taken my physical being out of the frame and rather imply
a trace of the self as being evident within these images. The light is an important factor in this work and the decor of the hotel rooms themselves, referring to them as a form of empty shells in which many people have stayed before my entering the space.