My Father's Things, Contact Grid #8

My Father's Things, Contact Quad #2

My Father's Things, Contact Grid # 5

My Father's Things, Contact Quad #1

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My Father's Things, Contact Grid #1

My Father's Things, Contact Quad #5

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My Father's Things, Contact Quad #3

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My Father's Things, Contact Quad #4

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My Father’s Things

Contact Grids & Single Frames

While clearing my father’s cluttered house and studio of 54 years, 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 can digitally crop and print the re-contextualized grids. As I continue to shoot, I am increasingly assembling his former possessions to generate more intentional visual conversations. Some of the objects are personal, some are mundane, some are simply aesthetic, and cumulatively, they are echoes of a life.

Included in this gallery are contact grids–the first examples of the innovative format–of 4 to 20 frames, as well as darkroom prints from single negatives.

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