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Contact Grids

In the process of clearing my father’s house and studio of 54 years, and removing thousands of pieces of his original art, I filled boxes with his things–objects that speak of my eccentric father. I began photographing these various items over a light box onto black-and-white film, each successive frame a single image. Noticing the unplanned relationships across frames and rows on the contact sheets (positives of each entire roll of negatives), inspired me to create grids of multiple frames. These re-contextualized images are digitally cropped and printed from scans of the analog contact sheets. As I continue to shoot rolls of my father’s things, I am increasingly thinking ahead, assembling objects to generate visual relationships and potential meanings. Some of the objects are personal, some are mundane, some are simply aesthetic, and cumulatively, they are echoes of a life.

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