Browning, 2017
Graphite, resin and funerary ashes on muslin66 x 96 inches
Jeanne, 2016
Graphite, resin and funerary ash on muslin84 x 60 inches
Jeanne Dorothy Heil (Birth Certificate), 2017
Graphite, resin and funerary ashes on muslin15 x 16 inches
Susie, Christmas, c. 1953, 2017
Graphite, resin and funerary ashes on muslin24 x 18 inches
Susan Bartlett Robinson, 2017
Graphite, resin and funerary ashes on muslin14 x 16 inches
Lynn Moore Robonson, 2017
Graphite, resin and funerary ashes on muslin16 x 16 inches
ASHES, 2017
Copyright The Artist
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Susan Sontag said “to photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”...
Susan Sontag said “to photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” What do our school portraits testify to when youth is behind us? What’s become of the kids in your class? How many didn’t outlive their parents? Each generation has to answer the same questions of the one before it, but under a new set of cultural rules and social realities. In this work, Ericsson has blown up his mother and her classmates covering the potential of baby boomers in one of their ashes. Everything ends in a photograph.