The Polaroid original was created in Dec., 2019. The image was digitized and enlarged in April, 2021, for printing on acrylic. The original Polaroid is available on request.

A family member offered a trove of old, large format negatives an elderly friend was poised to throw out. I wasted not a second in accepting them. They date to a time when my grandparents were young, my parents children. Though the people depicted are not my people, I burn with nostalgia and the keen ache of loss as I look at them. Giving them new life feels like reaching out to gently touch the past.