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Photographing the Photographer
Digital photography, instant film

 Photographs make the subject or moment which is gone forever, immortalized. 

This series was done in collaboration with my middle daughter, age 9 .
This was an opportunity to explore the moment in which a snapshot of time is forever captured. Exploration of nostalgia and memory juxtaposed with the instantaneous immortalization by instant camera.

These are displayed with the instant photo (taken by my daughter) and my image of her, paired together in diptychs. 

One Child Will Lose an Arm,

One Child Will Not Hear Another Happy Birthday,

One Child Will Not Live to See Tomorrow

Family portraits of children, Balloons

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This Installation was in response to reading Susan Sontag's, Regarding The Pain of Others. Upon reading about the ethics of war photography I posed the question," What if we could raise awareness by showing what we COULD lose, instead of showing what we HAVE lost?"

 

Using photographs of children given to me by the parents, I suspended them from large black balloons. Setting them in the woods as a memoriam for what could be lost, the installation was able to be walked through, and in between the floating children. Heights of the pictures ranged from 4 to 6 feet, allowing the viewer to face what we could lose in the eyes. The installation only lasted as long as the balloons held their helium. 

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Severed
Acrylic, charcoal, hand dyed thread, washers, electrical tape on canvas. Displayed in vintage family frames

This is an ongoing, multi-part project exploring inter-family relationships and the effect of severed ties. Having two sisters with which my relationship is strained or almost non existent, has really allowed me to probe the narrative of what it means to be family, the sense of loss and mourning that happens when familial bonds are broken and the process of healing.

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