SO MANY QUESTIONS
I have an insatiable curiosity about the family dynamics visible in a collection of photographs taken by my father in the 1950’s and ‘60’s. There are questions about the moments surrounding the taking of these photographs. What were we doing before he took the photograph? What inspired him to stop us so that he could capture it? What did we go back to after the shutter clicked? While I suss out the psychological implications of these family interactions, I can never know what my father’s thoughts or intentions were when he chose to freeze us in time. I pick apart the narrative, as I perceive it, and I zero in on the elements that ask a key question about what is happening in the photograph. Through digital interventions involving color and cropping, and with the addition of words, I call attention to the unknowable as an act of acceptance.
SO MANY QUESTIONS is a series of altered family photographs that were taken by my father in the 1950’s and ‘60’s. They range in size from 7 to 8 by 10 inches.