I always carry this old photograph of my grandfather with me. The handsome guy with the white shirt enjoying a huge tartine is my grandfather. He drowned when I was only two years old, so I never got the chance to meet him. In the 1970s he had a child with a Japanese woman. This […]
My grandparents shared a love for nature and adventure. This is my grandmother, Mary Pearson, sitting in a vintage vehicle, fully packed with camp gear against a backdrop of the North Cascades. This incredible image was shot by my grandfather, Hal Pearson, in Mt. Baker National Forest, around 1930. My grandparents have hundreds of photos […]
My mother Mira went missing when I was 12 years old. This is her traditional Korean wedding portrait with my father. As I got older, I began uncovering more and more information about what happened to her. In order to process my loss, and also understand more about my family, I started creating artworks based […]
“Sometimes the veil between this life and the life beyond becomes very thin. Our loved ones who have passed on are not far from us.” -Ezra Taft Benson The young lady (standing) is my Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Dubhorn. She was the only child (of 9) to survive in her family. This portrait was taken in the […]
My favorite portrait of my grandmother taken sometime in the 1960s by my granddad. Jane Turner, 1919-2015. She was a schoolteacher and a dance instructor. She was known to walk on her hands around the house. She celebrated her 90th birthday by choreographing and performing a tap dance routine in her assisted living center’s talent […]
This is my great grandmother Amanda Louise Creach Hunter in the 1910s. She was 14 when this portrait was taken. Louise understood pain and loss. I can see it in her eyes. She was born in 1903 to a prominent family outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Her mother was diagnosed with TB. She called seven-year-old Louise […]
“Nostalgia made me feel that my life had roots and continuity.” -Constantine Sedikide As we celebrate 2015, let’s make a special New Year’s Resolution for our families. Let’s resolve to discover our roots through old photographs. Most families have hundreds of analog photos in their homes. Where’s your family history hiding? @ancestry and @savefamilyphotos are […]
I live in Belgium where a box of excellent chocolates is common, but knowing our chocolates are excellent comes through the experience of tasting them. You cannot determine how delicious the chocolate will be by looking at it from the outside. You must bite into it and engage your senses to really experience the chocolate. […]
“There is only love — and stories. All else is but a shadow dream.” -Vera Nazarian Meet my maternal grandparents John Emmet Mullaney (Pop-Pop) and Mary Theresa Faulds. Here they are on top of Rockefeller Center in the 1940s, enjoying their honeymoon in New York City. Pop-Pop John was stationed on the USS New York […]
Picture taking was probably a big deal in the 1940s, but my Dad got distracted by his shiny (new?) train set on Christmas morning. His baby sister (my aunt) was a cooperative subject. Christmas at my grandparents’ house always felt magical. My grandmother was a great cook and their house felt festive and warm. This […]
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