The Ancestral Portraits are made through a process in which I project old photographs onto my body. The portraits employed within the work are gathered from my family album and date back to the 19th century. The face is that portion of the body that is most often associated with identity, and thus, remembrance. Projecting the portraits of my ancestors directly onto my face allows me to explore proportional differences and similarities found within family features. Perhaps more importantly, I often find striking similarities in bodily positioning and facial expression.

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