Travel memories collide through plastic camera lenses to retell the story of travel adventures. The ongoing series is meant to mimic the way we experience travel and new places and record them in our mind. Through film manipulation and random frame overlaps, in a trial and error manner, the final piece is a reflection of how travel experiences are seen and memorized. Cameras used are generally plastic and minimalistic, with no batteries and limited to no settings. When manipulating the film, there can be no guarantee that every art piece will result in a beautiful successful result, but if successful, the morphing of the colours and objects within the photograph are like fading memories of new travel experiences or the surreal experience of discovering a new place. The discovery of a new place or a new culture, meeting new people, is a walk outside the ordinary routine that people’s minds are used to. When we are exposed to a different pattern of life, we think differently and our mood changes. When people return to their normal routine, they tend to reminisce their travel experience and in most cases, the memories are faded and blurred and continue to do so as time passes. Without their vacation pictures, it is more than likely that the traveler cannot remember everything that was seen. The visual mind morphs and combines what was seen and everything becomes a dream, and in most cases places and events are even confused with each other. The photographic series aims to reflect this idea through its blur and puzzle like assembly process, where there is no thought process on the arrangement of the frames. The final pieces are chosen through a conscious selective process.
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GEORGIANA MARCU has always had a fascination with travel and nature. While she has always been a painter, she lately has chosen analog photography as a medium to express her ideas. However, Georgiana is not limited to only analog as she is currently a professional photographer in her chosen career. She captures the light and the candid moment of various subjects - from couples in love and Caribbean sunsets to people and their pets. Georgiana collects cameras like she collects brushes and each one of them has a specific task and is used for a specific purpose. No camera viewfinder is the same, and no camera ever shares a similar task.