Losing objects as a kid drawing 
Lost Russian Princess Anastasia 
Lost city and civilization of Mohenjo Daro 
Photo of two different clock times overlaid alluding to lost time 
Lost Library of Alexandria 
Using marker to block out the names on this book page alluding to lost words and information in censorship. 
Ink drawing interpreting the idiom- ‘losing his marbles’ 
Misty forest a common image representation of the feeling of lost 
A Chinese phrase for lost being half erased- losing mark presence 
A drawn maze- representation of losing direction
These are a combination of images that I made/found/scanned to collect 10 images to do with the idea of ‘lost’. I tried to allude to different interpretations of lost including ‘lost’ direction, information, people.
We were also asked to find some text relating to lost in some way. I chose this article from the New Yorker about the photographs of Hugh Mangum which had been taken between the late 19th century and early 20th century- the negatives had been lost after Magnum died and found decades later to be printed, appreciated and exhibited.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/hugh-mangum-a-lost-and-found-portrait-photographer
I find the photographs from this article quite beautiful and representative of a lost past, era and memories. Magnum’s negatives were not kept well, thus there are signs of corrosion and erosion on the prints where parts of the emulsion have fused together or flaked off.
“The imperfect prints made from them remind us of how fragile our access to the past is, and of how much of daily human life gets lost to history.”
“If Hugh Mangum’s joyful, elastic, democratic, and slightly strange portraits feel fresh and unusual to us today, that’s because they are. But it’s also because we haven’t always been given the chance to see the past clearly.”
Blackwood, S. (2019, February 14). The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/hugh-mangum-a-lost-and-found-portrait-photographer
In class, we explored grids and composition. Our tutor asked us cut up some of these images and written single words from our text to make 3 posters based on a 5 x 5 , 3 x 3 or 5 x 3 grid on an A3. Formal qualities and practice was prioritised in this exercise and we were asked not to deliberate too much on the conceptual or narrative nature of the posters.
Something about Lost 