My Father's Things, Contact Grids

"My Father's Things" is a cumulative portrait, filtered through one's possessions amassed over a lifetime, displaced and re-assembled.

"My Father's Things, Contact Grids" began with a study of objects gathered from my father's cluttered house and studio and shot on black-and-white film as a means of remembering the eccentric artist and the backdrop of my childhood. While assessing the darkroom contact sheets, I became entranced with how the images were communicating across frames and rows, which prompted me to scan the sheets so that I may digitally crop them into grids of neighbouring shots.

For the first 10 rolls, the relationships between frames were coincidental, as their order was unplanned, but with successive rolls, I have been arranging the sequences of shots with more intention. The Contact Grids examine both the edges of photography and its very essence. By revealing multiple frames together, within their original syntax, a conversation is stimulated between shots and beyond what may be suggested with a single frame.