Producing large format black and white negatives from the family archive, held to the sky so to be backlit with the full Moon’s reflection, the faces of my ancestors filter the motion of the lunar orbit which is traced as I re-photograph the negative at regular intervals.
My practice thus seeks to reflect on the lost aura of the work of art caused by mechanical reproduction, as Margaret Iversen writes: “To experience the aura of the phenomenon means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return. It implies, then, an ethical attentiveness and receptivity to the other.” In my practice, one may become receptive to the loss of the other by investing the lunar satellite with the ability to gaze back at the viewer through the mediation of photography, tracing the timeline of my Grandfather's life.
