Fly in Amber

Fly in Amber gathers photographs that tell the story of the last days of childhood and motherhood from the vantage of the emptying nest. Time moves slowly here yet can be seen in the threadbare arm of a chair or a tear in a screen door. These portraits are an offering between mother and daughter. Behind the gaze of both, there is a sense of letting go and making ready for what lies ahead.

The book's eight unbound chapters are housed in a hand-made, clamshell box that invites the viewer into its rooms and gardens, the domestic spaces that hold so much portent. Each chapter consists of an 8-panel accordion structure that allows the viewer to create different image relationships that parse together, like the moving light of day, multifold stories. On the verso of each unfolded page is a single, large image in counterpoint.