Wreaths

2020 - Present

At the turn of the 20th Century, Kodak offered consumers a new way to see and remember daily life. The company’s promise, “You push the button, we do the rest,” compelled amateur picture-makers to “Prove it with a Kodak.” Generations later, the occasion of a darkened living room and the whir of the slide carousel has been usurped by endless swiping through the smart phone camera roll. Yet, the potency of the early images remains ripe for inquiry. Wreaths combines contemporary photographs with images mined from my family archive. Here, stewardship and curation combine to re-write familial memory. By pulling out small moments that transcend the traditional boundaries of the family album, I am working to conjure a visual enchantment unbounded my time. The resulting image-poems are at once experimental, sentimental, and transformative.