Home: Faux Family Photo Album
Memory is a retelling of what we think we remember; it’s a collaboration of events and collected moments that have occurred in the mind. In my work Home, I recreated a series of faux family portraits. I scanned in old family portraits of my relatives from Vietnam, and paired them with images of family homes I photographed throughout Los Angeles. By doing this, I am fabricating a substitute family photo album – thinking of the many displaced families, and individuals that have escaped in search of asylum. The language in my work touches on separation and bridges the question of what came before, and what’s to follow.
Family Portrait I, 20"x20", collage
Family Portrait IV, 20"x20", collage
Sisters I, 20"x20", collage
Family Portrait II, 20"x20", collage
Siblings, 20"x20", collage
Grandparents, 20"x20", collage
Sisters II, 20"x20", collage
Lineage, 20"x20", collage
Mother / Grandfather, 20"x20", collage