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a family portrait.
A Family Portrait began as a way to reimagine the family portrait through multimedia photographic practice.
I sought to understand my present by looking to the past.
The work is a combination of digital photography, film stills, & scans from over a lifetime.
As it evolves, it becomes more of an experience of intimacy than inquiry. An expression of deep, desperate, tumultuous, unwavering love.
As a child, I remember wanting to say “i love you”
but couldn’t get it out.
It choked me
as if saying it would somehow reveal what I really meant-
“I'm so afraid of you or I dying. help me.”
I made pictures instead.
I thought I was telling a story
I was learning a story.
I thought I was connecting dots
Dots were connecting me.
I thought I was saying all I cannot speak through the photographs,
but I was only ever allowing myself to feel for that exact and only fraction of a second.
The photograph is not about remembering, it is about awakening, now.
Now, while I still have a beating heart to love with.
Now, while I still have words to choke on.
Now, with eyes that can see.
What do photographs look like when they're allowed to breathe life into now, rather than become breaths held for forgetting?
I will forever be inside of this work.
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