Check the Mail for Her Letter

Check the Mail for Her Letter explores memory and loss after my grandmother succumbed to dementia. Two streams of visuals weave in and out of one another: a collection of modern photographs in the months leading up to and following her passing, and the other a series of vintage portraits dating back to her childhood. The series moves in and out of time and place. Gouache and wax pencil are used to obscure elements in reimagined vintage photographs as I consider how to visualize fragmented recollections and decaying memories. A letter, never mailed, becomes my own evidence while unravelling an eerie string of events that led me to wonder about the space where reality and delusion intermingle. The last time I saw my grandmother her mind briefly slipped, as she insisted she had to go check the mail. Could she have possibly known that I would be sitting here today with an unsent letter? —words that would have been my last communication before losing her completely. Read more at : https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2020/04/27/830806858/artist-explores-grief-memory-and-loss-through-photographs