inheritance

2023, triple channel video, 04:37

What started as a endeavor to archive my grandfather’s collection of over 200 slides manifested itself into inheritance, a collage in the form of a triple-channel video. In this film I combine these slides with prints, letters, postcards, and inherited objects over a light table to create momentary works of assemblage to the audio of the objects interacting, a phone call with my grandmother, and the music I was listening to while working. inheritance functions as a visual archive of the photography of my grandfather, my parents, and my own, exhibiting how the role of the family archivist has been passed into my hands, and the value of memory as a vessel of emotion and history.