no memory is ever alone
No Memory is Ever Alone is the story of my dad and I. He used to bring out a box of slides that he photographed in his 20s every Christmas and make us all view them on an old projector on our living room wall telling the same stories every year. We all moaned and groaned about it. But it was a consistent memory from a childhood where we moved a lot and I never felt like I had a steady “place” to live and create memories.
I realized that by placing the slides in my current landscape, I created not only a connection between his life and mine, but a trail of memories, each that had its own association for both of us. These “dad memories” were part of my history and my place in the world.
I did not want to Photoshop that connection. Part of the process that was necessary for me was to find the right location and feel my dad’s slides united with how I live today – a place within a place, a memory within a memory.
