Margaret's Amber

Recognition and appreciation of the changing roles and interdependencies of the parent and child offer fulfillment in the relationships’ mature stage. However, it is sorrowful, when one member of this connection recedes and the other has to walk away: the binding threads of parenthood now forgotten or relinquished. Margaret’s Amber l and ll is an amber encased homage to my grandmother and mother, united in time, before they were mothers. Here I profess my admiration and respect for the individual women they were, to lessen the pain of the walk away.

The original concept for the IRIS Group exhibit Filmic, developed during a discussion of ‘fridge film’, all those rolls of 35mm that we, at one time, stored in our fridges. From this, I started collecting the developed film; the negatives stashed in boxes, cupboards, and drawers, to fashion a particular photo album.

 Margaret’s Amber l and ll

graphite, ink and pastel on mylar, collected negatives, aluminum, brass 

108"h x 84"w x 36"d