losing ground

22” x 30”
inkjet print, alcohol transfer on printmaking paper
2007

Family photographs reveal an inherent nostalgia of photographing in the desire for the future return to memory. My images mourn the loss of shared experience within a communal album or box. The people in these photo-transfers have been removed from their context; taken out of album pages, cut away from their surroundings, and displaced to blank white pages to be seen on white walls. Group and individual portraits are fore grounded, but the narrative is incomplete and incomprehensible without a place to inhabit. Onetime family and friends are suspended nameless between a reinterpreted past and an undefined present.