Memories are what hold families together, history brings family together, but our memories can fade. Through wet faded watercolor on Yupo paper combined with collaged photos, I captured visual memories. The loss of my dad is the reason I began this series last year with just pictures of my father and family of origin. This year I have moved farther back in the family history. So often memories are lost when a loved one passes and all that is left are photos.
The colors I portray in my watercolors and through the threads portray a sense of hope in the wreckage of losing loved ones. I use thread to express collecting memories and harboring them. I am recreating the lost memories and holding on to them. In my piece titled Wheeler(6), the two units riding bicycles are separated and there are water colored pieces of Yupo paper in the background to show memories fading. In Dorothy with Umbrella(9), the photo was transferred incompletely which portrays a fading on memory. I use a card board frame to show the boxes that these pictures used to be stored in. Through my series, Memories, I am celebrating memories in relationship to great loss.
The colors I portray in my watercolors and through the threads portray a sense of hope in the wreckage of losing loved ones. I use thread to express collecting memories and harboring them. I am recreating the lost memories and holding on to them. In my piece titled Wheeler(6), the two units riding bicycles are separated and there are water colored pieces of Yupo paper in the background to show memories fading. In Dorothy with Umbrella(9), the photo was transferred incompletely which portrays a fading on memory. I use a card board frame to show the boxes that these pictures used to be stored in. Through my series, Memories, I am celebrating memories in relationship to great loss.