LAURA DEANE
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​current work | matr

​Inheritance | “the responsibility of maintaining this visual archive was placed with the mother
Becoming a mother changes one's practice.

A lack of time for work.
A sense of obligation.
Fragments of days and memories.
Recollection. 

A grounded basis in local geography that roots my experience in a temporal and geographical sense.
A sense of priority and importance in the work.
Observations, insights and the small details of everyday life.     

Motherhood grounds you in a community. Ties you to place and people.
Women have always collected things and recycled them because leftovers yield nourishment in new forms”
Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro

This is more than a visual experience - it is a sense of belonging. This body of work is not solely concerned with aesthetics, but with the stories and relationships that unfold within the community. These images form a matrilineal thread, much like the stories told over time; mothers (always mothers) delivering and nurturing social stories and information throughout generations. The keepers of HIStory.

Just as we use portrait images as a means of constructing a self identity, this work uses an ongoing album of photographs to construct the identity of a community. Communities curate an identity through their environment


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lve
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openeye
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place
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nowhere
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new york
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space
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the mansion
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geometry
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games
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • portfolio
    • LVE
    • the mansion
    • somewhere
    • place
    • New York
    • space
    • openeye
    • geometry
    • experimental
    • football
    • drawn
    • collage
    • output
  • Students
  • MMU portfolio