Resurfacing

Resurfacing is a multi-generational, time-lapsed series based on a box of recently found 35mm slides taken by my late father in the 1960s and '70s. Using his tray-fed projector from the same era and a ladder I projected his images onto the basement walls of my nonagenarian mother's home. Like a theatre constructed in the subconscious, the house in the post-midnight hours offered unconventional niches and vestibules to project my father’s views of the world once again. The small, thin, ephemeral images of the past were painted onto the architectural surfaces of the present, mixing time and place in unusual juxtapositions. My father, an astrophysicist, college professor, and aspiring amateur photographer captured banal domestic scenes, scientific observations, and framed views of nature. Images of the sky and the landscape were interspersed with family vacations, technical star and solar system photos, and NASA-sourced images used in his lectures.  For me, the photos of nature and anonymous places were of particular interest, suggesting connections to my photography and our shared interest in science and the natural world as well as our shared past.