ideas for project

WHAT WE STAND FOR:
What we stand for- beliefs in the bigger scheme of things.
A lot of what we stand for is what we remember; what we grew up with- the places and people. The only way we really have to keep these things are through memories and old photos. I bought lots of old photos (negative and non) and also old slides, and then took photos of them in different places. The results are differing; sometimes the placing a photo in a different place makes it loose meaning, and importance (thus- what we stand for is personal, but lost after you die, so therefore, is what we stand for as important as it seems?) OR it seems more significant- a photo on the beach of 2 old people juxtaposed next to 2 real people on the beach; the continuing trend, what we stand for we can pass down and last forever. This photo in particular, as its with 2 couples, links to the beileif of love/marridge etc- how what we stand for/believe in continues in many different ways.
In other ways, the photo next to crass advertisements of coke etc, make the photo seem lost- and memories less important (could be seen as a marxist critic, people lost to the consummerist icons of fast food joints.) In a different version of using the photos, I super-imposed the photos on to people. This gave them significance- almost like memory.

Initial ideas-I did a mind map and came up with these sort of ideas:

• the literal What we Stand for; pictures of people standing up, the different reasons of them standing up...---> pictures of people's shoes, the ones that always are what we stand up in. what can they say bout people?
• Representation; is what we stand for what we show? pictures of different sort of people; whether we reprsent soething different. etc
• beleif/relegion, we stand for this; images of churches/religous buildings etc. What we stnd for, maybe whether this is what we need to stand for? if it still in use today
• past and present ---≥ we stand for what we remember; family memories, ancestors. Their values are usually wh`t we stand for, so should capture that as a form of belief
• friendship; photos of friends, against people alone. is what we stand for only important to people we know?
  
• street art; shows something that people stand for. cliche?

----> think i might choose past and present. it has lots of interest.