According to the Historical Society, an artifact is an item/object that is over 100 years old. I want to work with artifact photographs and compile new works through appropriating old family photographs. I plan on using photographic means of appropriating the photos.
What else is considered an artifact?
"art" i "fact"
I have a ton of baby pictures from when I was less than a year old that had survived the flooding of the basement numerous times, however, the pictures have rainbows of water damage flying across them, blocking out faces and just looking cool. I was thinking about appropriating these into a piece. These photographs, because of what they've been through, are, in my opinion, artifacts.
My younger sister and I were at our family farm, which is itself an artifact (ca. 1830), and at the bottom of a drawer in an antique dresser in the guest room, my sister found an envelope with Victorian Era "wedding pictures" inside...she starts flipping through the pictures when all of a sudden I hear her SCREAM!! The pictures were not wedding pictures, but a Victorian porno with the images numbered in order of the "plot" which was that of honeymoon sex. Hilarious. That I am sure would be worth some money, and I was thinking about appropriating it..somehow...
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