Cent mille milliards de visages

Inspired by Raymond Queneau's literary puzzle "Cent mille milliards de poèmes" in which 100 sonnets are written with matching rhymes and each line of each poem can fit in with the others, I've taken black and white film photos of powerful women who remind me of my late older sister Jennifer. By cutting each portrait up into horizontal slices of recognizable features and swapping them all, a composite memory of sorts is created with the intent of thinking about who my sister would be today through the eyes - and hair and forehead and nose and lips and chin and neck - of people who impact me like she has. The high-speed, grainy black-and-white film obscures the features and offers a dreamlike, nostalgic quality to the composition.