The “Visual Metaphor” – GHOST ON THE
CANVAS.
As a third year BA Honours Photographic Media Student at Blackburn
College University Centre, I was given an assignment titled The Visual
Metaphor. This required the production of images motivated by literature and
create an exhibition within a public forum.
Glen Campbell recently released an album, “Ghost on the Canvas” as a
finishing point to his long and established career as a Country/Popular music
star. He was diagnosed with suffering from Alzheimer’s and wanted
to put his thoughts onto record whilst they were still clear. After listening
to the haunting and heart wrenching lyrics of these “vocal
metaphors”, for the coming to terms of the end of his life as he and his loved
ones and friends knew it, I was inspired to collaborate with the patients and
staff of East Lancashire Hospice for what moved them or gave them hope,
strength and happiness in a time of sadness, bewilderment or despair.
A lyric from a well loved song, a passage from a piece of literature or
a line from a poem have motivated everyone asked to focus their feelings or
mood about the situation they might have found themselves or a loved one in, or
indeed the caring staff who come across people encountering this change in life
every day.
Some of these ideas have been interpreted as a visual metaphor and
translated into a photographic image, presented in this exhibition. Each image
focuses on a specific mood or feeling represented by the song, poem or piece of
writing.
Each numbered image directly relates to a patient’s or member of
staff’s inspirational piece they contributed to our meetings. The original
line or quote is accompanied with explanation of the metaphor I chose to use in
its visual form.
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