LUPE MAGAZINE - Middlesex University

Aleksandra Wojcik
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‘Lucid Dreams of Battersea’ is an ongoing
project based on my visits to Battersea Park.
My aim is not only to photograph the location
but also to share my experience and fantasies
about the place. For me, and I believe for many
people the park is a place to relax or think your
own thoughts, to forget about the everyday
reality. The place awakes my imagination and
longings, it is like a daydream...
For a long time I was visiting Battersea
regularly and at some point I developed a
strong relationship with the place which made
me feel ready to make a project based on this
area. I wanted to experiment and develop my
own methods that would allow me not only to
capture images but also apply things into them
that would remind me of my experiences of
being in the park on particular days. I wanted
to work on my project not only as a landscape
photographer who takes pictures outside
but also as an artist who can develop and
construct their work in the studio or home
space. The photographs taken on instant film,
as unique and fragile objects are subjected to a
process of damaging (chemical and physical)
their surface and after that are scanned on
the flatbed which translates them into the
numbers and codes that can be reproduced and
shared in the cyber world.
In Lucid Dreams of Battersea, I try to introduce
different dimensions into my photographs and
use different methods in order to achieve
the final print.
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