My work takes screenshots from Google Earth of all the different buildings and homes I've lived in, and merges them together. Where you live dramatically affects who you are/become, we all know this. And so you as a person are a chimera of these places and the experiences you had at each of them. But as you move forward through time, we all tend to forget the details of things and whole chunks of time can start to blend together too.
I chose to leave the Google Earth watermark in on some pieces because, well it's easier to just leave it there, but I also believe it saves my concept by saying that the only way I can readily interact with these places now is through photos or screenshots since the physical buildings are not mine anymore. That's also why I chose to not feature any doorways or walkways, because I can't actually enter these places anymore (unless you count the garage doors). I wanted the whole setting to be a little uncanny or dreamlike, which is why the background is the way it is. An empty barren plain, with a featureless, oversaturated sky, and some unassuming mountains on the horizon, all of which are from images I personally captured.
What parts and pieces I chose to use was largely determined by how easy and clear they were to manipulate in photoshop. Sometimes in Google Earth a tree is just in the way of a whole third of a house and so it just felt more practical to try and work around that, than trying to forcibly remove the obstructions. I'm
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