MY DEAD DAD

For this collection I have been working with my dad’s photographs and voicemails as a way to remember old memories and incite new ones. As a child I saw his photos laying around the house as some “thing” he was interested in, but my interests were elsewhere. Now with him gone, and my artistry turning from painting to photography, I have tried to recreate what he saw through his devices and lenses, in an urge to encapsulate who he was and how he looked at the things he photographed. 

I have used a ViewMaster toy to view these images so that the viewer must physically participate to view the images. The positioning of each image adds another layer of memory, how memories meld, jumble, compress together and combine with new thoughts. Photographing through the viewfinder of the ViewMaster and printing those images, has added yet another layer between the image and the viewer, speaking to how memory is an elusive concept that is unscientific and slippery to capture, yet something that we all possess and even covet.