Chiharu Shiota

This Japanese artist creates a lot of instillation and photography work that contain the themes of past and present, life and death and objects that can have memories implanted upon them.

I like the idea of objects implanting memories out of Chiharu ideas because I thought the other themes in the work were so predictable and boring but this idea of memories was an interesting a slightly fresher idea to me. I chose this Picture above as my favourite to show this for a few reasons, firstly a lot of my childhood memories are of being in different cars that my parents had owned and driven but also the car I own is 42 years old and I thought that having been around that length of time it would have a lot of memories, some perhaps very interesting. I like the fact that this seemingly inanimate object can be tied in with hundreds of different events and memories even if it is not the focus of each memory.