Hiraeth is a Welsh term with no set meaning or direct English translation. It's a word that encapsulates many experiences from homesickness, longing and belonging to loss, melancholia and nostalgia. The word's ambiguity and ability to be applied to many aspects of life is what has inspired Rose Morgan's practice as a digital artist.
To explore what hiraeth is, Rose created the video installation Perspectives on Hiraeth. Influenced by the works of Louise K Wilson, Charlotte Prodger, and Suki Chan, the video explores Rose's own experience with hiraeth through narration in conversation with the experiences of others seen onscreen to explore how the word is interpreted differently by individuals based on their memories and life experiences. As said individuals recount their thoughts on aspects of hiraeth, photographs from their pasts appear in flashes to give insight into the memories that have been conjured as they speak, though the photographs aren't entirely clear to indicate the fading of memories with passing time.
With the photographs submitted by the individuals that Rose spoke to, she also created a series of collage works titled Hiraeth. Each collage layers photographs in black and white at varying opacities so no one image is clear, symbolising moments longed for that belong to different point in the past. The collages therefore, represent the respective individual's personal experience of hiraeth within a singular image.
Through viewing the two bodies of work Rose wants viewers to reflect on their own experiences of hiraeth and what it means to them.
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