ID - Max Van Der Wal

ID is an investigation into the emergence of myself, a complex chaotic mess of memories and impulses through the means of transformed photography, which is clear to everyone familiar with photography, a medium inexplicably linked with memory. My experiments with mordançage in black and white and color have given me various transformational degrees which I use to answer questions: how do we recognize objects? How does a tiny patch of red, green and blue colored gelatin show us the faces of our loved ones? What role does memory play in our ability to recognize? What are the required features of an object for it to be recognizable? Where lies the perceptual limit of our recognition of an object and which aspects are of importance?