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Artwork Description

Between 2005 and 2008, Rose Marasco created her photographic series Projections by rephotographing various altered interiors of her house on Winter Street in Portland, Maine. To construct the work, Marasco projected images culled from various sources of media—advertisement, newspapers, art books, and personal snapshots—onto the surfaces in different rooms of her home and then photographed the illuminated and amended interiors. The work is the culmination of several years of intense consideration and research into the history of the artist’s historic home, built, coincidentally, in 1838, the same year the medium photography was invented. By conflating her house and her chosen medium into a layered biography of sorts, Marasco developed a metaphorical vernacular where narrative, document, fiction, and process overlap. As the artist remarked about the making of Projections: “Sometimes the motivation to make an image comes from my past and sometimes from my present. I do not think about this, nor question it. I’ve learned to trust this process—the creative process.“