Reflections on a Living Ruin: How photomedia can be used to explore a ruin as a space for reflection on time and transformation.

Reflections on a Living Ruin expands upon current understandings of ruins as spaces of contemplation on the past and anticipation of the future. Utilising digital photography, video and cyanotypes, this photographic enquiry explores how these mediums each allude to time, space and anticipation. Reflections on a Living Ruin focuses on my mother’s abandoned swimming pool as it was slowly reclaimed by the surrounding natural environment. Exploring transformation through processes of loss and renewal, the site is used as both a subject and metaphor as it evolved over the last few years of her life.