virtual reality

These pieces speak to the idea of the virtual 3d world because they showcase a state of altered perception. Im unsure if I like the colored version or not better. The interplay between paint and photograph has this almost photo shopped feel relating this captured moment in memory back to technology.  The paint has this way of clouding a photograph, blurring this idea of memory. Each of these photographs was taken from my childhood, but my perception of this time, of what was actually happening in these photographs is blurred by my memory. The paint acts as a physical representation of what i remember about them.
The color choices of the paint was meant to be very artificial, meant to be fake. the passage of time always changes our understanding of a moment. much like a childhood game of telephone.
some questions raised- What really is our reality but memory. How do we alter our own perceptions of our memories?
what is a photograph but a map of our own reality.
What I am responding too-
Michael Naimark "His white-room event was one of the first virtual reality installations completed with-
out computers. He created a living room installation in which all surfaces and objects
were painted white. Before painting the space, he made a movie of people moving within
it. A specially modified motorized tripod rotated a movie projector such that the movie
images sequentially and precisely fill and empty sections of the white space with life;
for example, the empty white couch came alive with upholstery and people talking. This
uncanny illusion intimated virtual reality before most of us had any experience of it."

I'm responding to this by using memory's that don't feel like my own. they feel like this room painted white. So im using this colored non clean surface as a place to lay color.  When a picture doesn't relate to your memory any more because of the long passage of time, that it just becomes indistinguishable, it becomes that white surface that can then be altered

"The term virtual reality is most often applied to experiences generated by computers that simulate sensual cues of physical reality more closely than that generated only on a screen and by regular speakers."  I took this as a direct challenge to not use computers or forms of digital media to make a piece of work


looking into color phycology
https://www.infoplease.com/color-psychology
http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233843