Father and Son

This series of photo collages tell a story of imperfectly remembered events: memories “stored” in family photographs yet still subject to disorganization and even disintegration. Made in response to my mother's memory loss, they begin with a single snapshot I took on holiday. After photocopying the photograph I use ink and collage, incorporating mono-printed paper, to partially obscure and remove elements of the original image. In the process, although the relationship between the father and son remains, it is challenged and threatens at times to disappear altogether. In some pieces, the two figures seem no longer to occupy the photograph, and instead appear in new and strange landscapes. In others, they have disappeared altogether, and all that is left are empty profiles. By disrupting our expectations of the ability of photographs to hold memory in place, new stories and new connections have emerged to replace the old.