After looking at Hannah Hoch, I made a series of collages in response to her style, with different mediums and techniques. Collaging gave me the answers I was looking for, noticing that my great Nanny Dowry on my mums side share similar features to my sister. My great uncles children share the same eye shape with my brother Tye. Looking into my concept, I wanted to expand on my own research and go deeper regarding the research into the traits we share, which my grandad has contributed to massively as I talked him through my project and he gave me in depth information about his side and past, which I wouldn’t of seen, he also created a book for me, including photos, information and facts of my family tree, all the way up until 1879, this tree is on my fathers side as me as my grandad loves exploring our history and knowing what my past family were like, this is something we share, so when we get together, in preparation for this project we have been researching our family for months.
Having photos of my tree really helps me with my progression on this project, I used this research and started to overlay and print my family images on tracing paper to a line the features on people and see who share traits and characteristics. When overlaying pictures of my nan and her sister jean, their features matched up almost perfectly, these similarities also run through my mums genes. I also started to put photos together from my immediate family and history to recognise similarities within my family. Also I have seen a recurrence of names within my family, which I find interesting and also cherish and hope to pass onto the family further.
My two brothers and sister share the same dad, and have a surname combining my mums and their dads = Dowry-Beck. I took my dads surname Salthill, which has a special feel to it, as far as we know me and my grandad are the only people with the name Salthill, therefore, if memory of my father I will carry on this name onto my children and tell the story of my surname. Moving forward I will look into the crest of my surname and combing the meaning with my family photos by manipulation on photoshop.
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