Mom & Me: Postcards to Sigmund
In a family photograph, my mother and I are dressed for church wearing matching dresses.
A
study
of this photograph led me to this series entitled Mom & Me: Postcards to Sigmund. I enlarged, parsed and copied pieces of this mother/daughter image; I cut out pieces and
re-combined them before placing them against a wall I had painted red. Sometimes I
added text
or a drawing before re-photographing the result. As I began to “play” with the
characters from this
image, games and other activities from my childhood began to appear
in my work. After
photographing one idea, I destroyed the construction and began again
with different combinations
of image parts. Later I added another image -- a formal portrait
of my grandmother with her
mother. In trying to re-configure the pieces of these photographs
in my own work, I look for answers
to the
puzzle of maternal relationships in my family.
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