Family Portrait

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. There she stands, alone in the world, a sad little gray haired woman with no past. No memories to guide her through a sea of unfamiliar faces. There is a ravenous beast loose inside her body, it grows stronger every day, feeding on the memories of the people she loves and cherishes. As the beast grows stronger, she grows weaker until one day, she will no longer exist

Family Portrait

Family of ten with dog laying in front.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/2332/thumbnail.jp

Family Portrait

Its a rare experience to have lived formative years on a commune and to be the daughter of its leaders. In the late 1960s my parents were at the centre of a Toronto-based communitarian movement of baby boomers. During a period of social and political re-imagining they engaged in a leftist Christian philosophy, being of service to others and sharing resources. In 1971 they co-purchased Midian Farm as a back-to-the-land social experiment, but its utopian vision eventually collapsed. The end of my parents marriage and the fall of the farm left a resounding residue, a hangover from hope. A canvas for seeking, of memory; piercing through time with new energy, FAMILY PORTRAIT is a process-driven personal essay documentary. I stitch together a visually immersive treasure trove of archives and dip between memory and current day reflections to memorialize a shared piece of history

Family portrait

Full-length shot of a woman with five children (four boys, one girl). Everyone is wearing dark urban clothes. Painted canvas backdrop

Family portrait

Eleven members of an Orthodox family (three men, three women, four children) are posing in front of a house wall. All of them are wearing urban clothes.The man standing in the second row is the same as in VASE.02351

A Family Portrait

Family portrait using modified attachment theory going back two generations