Visitation Scenes
Photographic masks were used again in this series. This time, I used masks made from archive photographs of members of my family (on both my maternal and paternal sides). Parents, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Most of these people I had never met, but instead had only been told about.
I travelled with the masks to places where these family members had lived many years ago. Some of those places were the same as they had been then, but many places had changed dramatically. When the masks were worn in these places, an illusion was created of my ancestors coming back to life in a ghostly, surreal way. The participants who wore the masks were either people I met in these places who agreed to help, or family and friends. Sometimes, I wore a mask and a friend would operate the camera.