Media Project

 I've been playing around with an idea of trying to create a video art piece using a memory of my mother.

During the late 1970's (75-79) I remember walking daily to the bus stop with my mother. She would take me to school using the bus, and then get back on the bus (this may be a bit off, but it's how I remember it) and take it to work. During the winter it was of course cold and I was quite a bit smaller (I'm quite a bit larger now, ha ha) and when it got very cold, my mother would take me and wrap her coat around me. I would hug her as we walked together through the snow-covered streets to the bus stop.

This is one of the fondest memories I have of my mother and so I want to try and create something to recreate this moment. In order to show others what I'm trying to create, I used AI to create a representation of the moment that only exists in my head. AI did a pretty good job, but I didn't want to work on it any further. If I did I would have asked it to change the pants... no one wore jeans in my memories, at least not to school or work.

After that, I actually asked AI to blur the image and set the figures further back. Maybe that's an idea for the piece, not to be so specific, to seem like a spectator who is far away and who is trying to watch through the snow and wind. 

I'll keep working on it.