The Family Portrait. The Archive. Memory. Nostalgia. Connection. Amnesia. Severing. Death. Replacement.

 

Displacement. Presence and Absence.

 

We aren’t what we used to be. I wish we could go back to what we were. I wonder what could have been. What are we now?

 

These are the questions and complexities of family relations that I attempt to address in my work. Drawing from my family archives and memories, including records from before my time, I use writing and painting to explore figure groupings and isolations to speak about my contemporary family portrait and the histories that inform it.