borrow

12” x 18”
inkjet print
2007

As a form of imperfect copy work, I translate fading family photos into larger digital prints. The family album is itself becoming an obsolete format for the collection of family history, but remains a means of connection between people, an entry into the viewer's own life. My images are unashamedly nostalgic, mourning the loss of shared experience within a communal album or box of memory.

The family album questions our relationships to photographs and the narratives contained within them. They reveal an inherent nostalgia with a desire for the future return to memory. The distortion of the images allows a disjointed narrative to emerge from previously insignificant details; a hand gripping a knee with uncertainty, the intersection of porch and house, a narrow succession of buttons on a dress. The brief inclusion of these details hints at a story entered somewhere toward the middle. They are caught between a reinterpreted past and an undefined present.