Deaths/Memorials/Births
Newspaper and Digital Photography
2006-2007
I started collecting the ‘Obituary’ section from the Toronto Star, as they were read by me in November 2006. I kept track of words that resonated with me on each day, by writing them down and nothing what column and row they were located on. Once I completed this process for each day, I would work with those words to create a metaphorical narrative that was representative of the memory that had been created. I cut out all of the death notices - leaving the borders that framed them and the lines that separated them then I took those words that were selected and removed and placed them within the space where they were originally found. The final product of this act is then digitally photographed as a means of questioning authorship, the extent of absence, and the limits of time.
Photo documentation by Daniel Ehrenworth