TIMELINES

In 1989 I began a portrait project in which I photographed individual women - family, friends and acquaintances - against a backdrop of collaged newspaper.  Eighteen years later I returned to this project, making new backdrops, re-photographing some of the original subjects and adding new ones. The focus of the work shifted to the passage of time itself, as experienced through familial relationships among women. 

The portraits in this exhibition are each constructed from two or more images made over intervals of time - days, months, years or decades. An individual may be pictured at two different points in her life, or with her mother, daughter, grandmother or granddaughter. The fragments of newspaper in the background -- sometimes legible, sometimes not – bring in other ways of marking time. I hope that these composite images suggest the complexity of what is transmitted between generations, and remind us that the experience of time is not strictly linear or measurable.

Inkjet prints are 30” x 44”. This series is still in progress.

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