Mother/Me

2003

In this series of photographs I pose with younger versions of myself to try to replicate the feelings of my mother in the original snapshots. I took photographs from my past and digitally combined them with images of my present self impersonating my mother to see what I would look like as a mother. In these photographs past and present images of myself collide in an impossible temporality, and the photograph is transformed from a reflection of the past to a projection that prefigures a possible future. The mother and daughter in each frame seem connected across time, creating a narrative of wholeness and completion but when they are magnified the seams and disjunctures within this temporal compression are revealed.