Spooky Action at a Distance looks to the past to understand what it is to be a woman in the fraught present. In quantum physics, spooky action describes a phenomenon where particles become entangled and mirror aspects of each other no matter how far apart they are or what lies between them. In knowing one you know something about all.

Four generations of women in my family are entangled by genetics, trauma and shared experiences, with the youngest, my niece, confronting societal issues that affected my grandmother’s generation. Circumstance and often constraints contribute to the building blocks of who we are as women, mothers, daughters, sisters. Events that entangle and bind make clear our connection, situations and vulnerabilities. This work explores the past, contemplates the future and exposes parallels across generations.

By combining, deconstructing and reconstructing images and film stills from my families archive I explore how memory and history are shaped through visual narrative. Contact prints from vintage and contemporary photos are obscured using darkroom techniques and printing through fabric. The identity of the subject becomes inverted and ambiguous, disrupting the continuity of time and blurring the lines of who each of us could be. The story is set and repeats throughout; regardless of the medium. From negative still images to Super 8 film and digital video, the narrative remains an entangled loop.

SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE