My Mothers' Eyes
Can you See/ Are you There?
A deeply personal expanded photographic exploration tracing the loss of my mother, who as a photographer, created a vast archive of visual analogue and digital works, and collection of equipment.
Although it has taken some time, in more recent works for the series Can you See/ Are you There?, I have tentatively started to use my mother’s film camera to create new photographic works.
Through this deeply personal process, fraught with uncertainty, pain and loss, this camera, her camera, becomes an object of attachment through which I can show my mother the things that I see.
My mother’s camera, her eyes, have become a way to close the distance of absence, to feel her near, and as an antidote to consuming grief and loss, to somehow keep a connection to, and remembrance of my mother.
Although it has taken some time, in more recent works for the series Can you See/ Are you There?, I have tentatively started to use my mother’s film camera to create new photographic works.
Through this deeply personal process, fraught with uncertainty, pain and loss, this camera, her camera, becomes an object of attachment through which I can show my mother the things that I see.
My mother’s camera, her eyes, have become a way to close the distance of absence, to feel her near, and as an antidote to consuming grief and loss, to somehow keep a connection to, and remembrance of my mother.