Isa Lorenzo,001
August 7 - September 1, 2007
Silverlens Gallery
These are one of a kind collaged darkroom photographs of the old Malate, Manila house Isa Lorenzo grew up in.
"I got to thinking about my mother's house, how it is a repository of installations: the height markings on the edge of a bedroom door, tableaus of decorative trinkets, walls and walls of photographs - and I thought to photograph these installations, these collections of objects left behind by the generations of the house's occupants."
"After a couple of times shooting, I realized that more than the objects, it was the house itself. The wooden floors in various patterns, the steps in the hallways, the grills on the windows and doors, the doorstops, the clocks and the banisters - these are most vivid."
"So I shot those and I shot the installations and in the darkroom, started the process of laying down memories to print in a way not unlike remembering - In layers, selectively, with images that come forward and some that recede, depending on the memories and their meanings. I laid them out in my storyboard book, and made notations as to which should touch, overlap, or be far apart in the same sheet of paper. I printed according to densities, according to contrasts, and mostly, according to feel."
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