“‘But the great difficulty in this,’ interrupted the Psychologist.
‘You can move about in all directions of Space, but you cannot move about in Time.’

‘That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?’”
(Wells, H.G. (1895). The Time Machine. Penguin Books)

The Time Machine extract explores the idea of being able to travel back in time to a memory or occurrence in life whenever you desire, whilst understanding that full Time Travel is not possible. The Three Jessie’s is a collection of images that aim to bring the past into the present. Re-uniting myself with my two great-grandmas, also named Jessie. Having never met either of them, there are no memories attached to them, only faces in photographs.

Jessie Gee Lansbury

Featuring Jessie Mary Gee and Jessie Emma Lansbury.