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Family Snapshots 2006

This is also a work in progress. In continuing the ideas of memory and remembering in my work, this is a more harsh response ­ rather than focus on the beauty of the unremembered moments, I am trying to deal with the 'memory objects' ­ or rather, the lack of them. As a result of my physical distance from my family, I also don't have any say or role in the 'tending to the affairs' of my grandmother's house. The physical objects that I might remember her and my grandfather by are objects that are, for the most part, out of reach, due to the family tensions that arise after suggested/imagined/real insults and slights. The 'important' memory of a family gathered for a funeral is supposed to be a time of sadness and gathering together of memories ­ yet it often ends up as a negative and angry time, with arguments over the will, the disposal of property, the search for hidden objects, money stowed in books ­ the threads of connection begin to dissolve. This work is just beginning to explore the uncomfortable and ignored side of the family dynamic.

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