Deaths/Memorials/Births

Newspaper and Digital Photography on Archival Photo Paper
2006-2007
This body of work has a current run available on Kozuke Paper, 2013

I collected the obituary section from the Toronto Star, as they were read by me starting in November 2006. I kept track of words that resonated with me each day by writing them down and noting what column and row they were located on. Once I completed this daily process, I would work with the selected words to create a metaphorical narrative that was representative of a memory that had been created. I cut out the selected words, as well as all of the death notices - leaving behind the borders that framed them and the lines that separated them. Once this stage was completed, I taped the selected words back into the column and row where they were originally located. The final product of this action was digitally photographed as a means of questioning authorship, absence, and the limits of time. There are 50 photographs in this series.

Documentation by Daniel Ehrenworth