Family Outcomes
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Statement
Family Outcomes
"Family
Outcomes" has maintained as its focus the subject of people in my
life, whether immediate, extended
or chosen family, and how they have
affected me in continuing and evolving ways. The central theme of this
work is the notion that we are tied to our family and friends whether
by experience or memory, and that our
being in relationship does not end
because of some arbitrary separation, be it distance, choice or death.
These
images are about the discrepancy that often exists between what
we see and therefore assume, and what is
objectively true. They are also
about the question, "what is objective truth?". What we cannot
know when a
child's life is captured on film is of course where their
life will take them. We witness them frozen in time, in a
moment that
ceased to be as soon as it was recorded. What I have chosen to do is to
juxtapose this past and
this future into one image, as if to consolidate
the totality of life rather then its different passages. In this process,
I also record my relationship with the subject and how their life has
in one way or another affected mine.