This document discusses two art projects that alter images to change their meaning. The first had students bury drawings for a week, altering the images over time. The second involved an artist photographing spaces, leaving the photos at a demolition site for weeks where weather damaged them, and displaying the altered photos in light boxes at heights that corresponded to elements in the original spaces. Both projects explored how the meaning of objects can change depending on how they are depicted over time.

1. ALTERING MEANING
Learning Outcomes:
Create an accurate drawing of an object that has some personal significance to you.
Bury the drawing for approximately a week and bring it back to the class.
Learning Objectives:
Explore appropriate media and mark making to represent the object appropriately.
Consider how the meaning of objects can change depending on how they are
depicted.

3. Elizabeth
McLellan

4. “I floated this image in the canal for a week. It's a photograph of the place where I floated it. The water
peeled away the layers of emulsion within the transparency to reveal the different colours embedded in the
film. There's a kaleidoscopic effect as the light dances and ripples through them – just as it did on the surface
of the canal.”
CATHERINE YASS

5. For the series Decommissioned Catherine Yass photographed a car showroom and dance studio, when the
building was destroyed Catherine Yass placed the photographs around demolition site for a couple of weeks.
The images had scratches, rips and the colour from the emulsion had been altered.
Catherine Yass presented each image in a light box, each light box was placed at height level according to the
elements in the image.
"Small windows into a past and interior illuminated by imagination and memory" - Catherine Yass