Never Really There
(2020)

At the age of 56, my grandmother passed away due to ALS. As a result, I never got to meet her, spend time with her, or develop my own memories and narrative of her. What has instead become are handed down stories, tinted and tarnished by other’s relationship to her. Never Really There speaks to my mother’s relationship with her; a mother and daughter relationship that was never really there to begin with. As I long to create my own bond with my grandmother, this body of work acted as a beginning and unearthing.