Family Patterns
Family Patterns is an integration of the art from Patterns of Growth and a meditation on family, origin, and transformation.
I was adopted at 9 months of age and found my birth mother at age 18. In 2003 I created a series entitled Hold Me, that centered around my adoption and the feelings of displacement surrounding it.
Family Patterns shows people from my birth and adoptive families, and photos of me and my son. There is an intersection that holds me at the center; the past and future generation behind and in front of me. I am suspended in the present and time converges in me. I see how far I have come in accepting and integrating the seen and unseen imprinting of lineage on me as an individual and now, as a mother.
I decided to transform the images into prayer flags because I wanted to make tangible the benefits of reflection and growth, and to offer the love I received back to the universe and to others.
I was adopted at 9 months of age and found my birth mother at age 18. In 2003 I created a series entitled Hold Me, that centered around my adoption and the feelings of displacement surrounding it.
Family Patterns shows people from my birth and adoptive families, and photos of me and my son. There is an intersection that holds me at the center; the past and future generation behind and in front of me. I am suspended in the present and time converges in me. I see how far I have come in accepting and integrating the seen and unseen imprinting of lineage on me as an individual and now, as a mother.
I decided to transform the images into prayer flags because I wanted to make tangible the benefits of reflection and growth, and to offer the love I received back to the universe and to others.