My mother’s role is as a catalyst between the audience members and my work, where she is placed physically within the work or guides the audience through a performance as the familiar icon of mother.  Her personality can bring a level of trust and validity to my work, yet she too is becoming my work.  The role of the mother has been a representation of the caretaker as well as the individual who passes down tradition, culture, and history of family.  I see my mother as a figure that is a representation of my past, and the keeper of my memories up until I enunciated my sexuality.

 

Mom with the animals and me (Loyalty)
2008
30 x 30 inches
Archival Pigment Inkjet Print

 

Mom overlooks Boston (Romance)
2008
30 x 30 inches
Archival Pigment Inkjet Print

 

Mom plays the piano (Culture)
2008
30 x 30 inches
Archival Pigment Inkjet Print

 

Mom in her garden (Goddess)
2008
30 x 30 inches
Archival Pigment Inkjet Print

 

Mom and Paul kiss (Reproducer)
2008
30 x 30 inches
Archival Pigment Inkjet Print