Bloodlines
Bloodlines is a series of photographs investigating shared familial traits over the generations. Using passport or identity photos the images are constructs of two or more faces from the matrilineal line in my family resulting in an exotic fantasy hybrid linking one generation to the next. The many different permutations I have created serve as a kind of memorial since the female bloodline in my family is now extinguished..... I am the last one left. When looking at the faces individually the similarities may not be immediately apparent, but when layered in this way the resemblances are uncanny. An eyebrow, a nose, the set of the chin, a glance appearing from one generation to the next, linking us to the past and reaching out to the future……
Archival pigment print on Awagami Murakumo Kozo paper, various sizes, displayed in vintage photo frames
2020