Reappearance

Reappearance is a photographic journey connecting the past with the present. It is a personal history around a home and family. These images were created during a return to a childhood home after many years away. There are photographs of the shadows, a metal lunchbox, and a front door. There are glimpses of elderly inhabitants – doing dishes, eating a tv dinner or feet up in the La-Z-Boy. Superimposed on these captures are frames from home movies, created many years ago, often in the same physical space. The movie frames have been printed onto a semi-transparent paper, which allows the viewer to visualize both the past and the present. The movie images capture a moment in time, they are images of the people who inhabited those places but are now gone, the ghosts of the past. The two images – the photograph and the home movie film are physically joined by embroidery stitching. This place is a family time capsule, it cannot exist as it is much longer. The creation of this series was an opportunity to recreate the sense of sorrow and joy that make up a home.