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PROVO - A BYU art student is bringing ghosts back to life - - not people, but buildings.
In some cultures, empty buildings remain, waiting... In America, they leave ghosts: the memory of the old always with the new -- at least in people's memories.
BYU art major Bryan Hutchison thinks of his old Provo neighborhood, where he delivered papers, where he went to school, where he grew up.
"My attachment to this is a response to, 'This is my home,'" he said.
Wherever he travels in his hometown, he sees what was there before what exists now.
"I have memories and experiences attached to places, so ‘place' has kind of developed a psychology to it," he said.
Hutchison's artistic creations, for which he received a university grant, are ghost images: before-and-after portraits joined in one image. He searches country records for old photos of homes and buildings, then uses a print- making technique called a transfer drawing, which uses titanium white pigment immersed in rubbing alcohol.
Hutchison is working to complete 50 ghost images to exhibit, hoping to revive people's memories and cause them to think about what "home" really means.
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