MOTHER AND CHILD
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"I love this work. It's incredibly smart."   - Susan Bright, Curator of Photography; Editor: Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood

I’ve always been preoccupied with life’s existential realities (we’re born alone, we die alone, everything is impermanent) and for thirty years, making images has been my way of coping. In this series, I am artist, photographer, and re-interpreter of art history and Mother/Child iconography. At the heart of each of my works is the bond between humans, made manifest by the connection between hands, the sense of touch. The contact between hands is like a current of energy that solidifies a formative, bonding moment. In my photographs, the hands holding onto the books are mine. I've typeset the pages, so that centuries later, I'm in collaboration with the original artist, and I've altered their paintings, which, in most cases, were originally created for the Church. Nonetheless, these are fundamentally images of relationship, affection, and nurture.