Excerpts from Family Pictures 1982-1986
Family Pictures consists of sixteen mural scale images, texts and an installation of sixty small images. The image/text arrangement plays with the passage from document to fiction and the effect of duration. The texts correspond in multi-vocal ways to the imagery. Correspondences are stated or left open to the reader(s). The juxtapositions of images and texts also serve as a rupture between the idealized representations we reproduce in records of ourselves and our families and the sense that nothing looks or feels quite the way it is supposed to.