My Father's Things, Contact Grids

While clearing my father’s cluttered house and studio, I gathered boxes of unique and expressive objects. I have been photographing these various items over a light box onto black-and-white film to remember the eccentric artist and the backdrop of my childhood. When I first assessed the images on the contact sheets, I marveled at the unplanned relationships across frames and rows; the objects were communicating with each other. I began to isolate sections of frames, without altering their original sequence. Once the analog contact sheets are scanned, I digitally crop and print the re-contextualized grids. As I continue to shoot rolls for this expanding project, I am increasingly ordering my father's former possessions with intention, to generate more specific visual interactions and conversations. Some of the objects are personal, some are mundane, some are simply aesthetic, and cumulatively, they are echoes of a life.