She Crossed The Sea
chromogenic prints, 2001, ranging in size from: 25.5" x 54.5" - 25.5" x 21"

She crossed the sea explores a motif that reappears in a number of projects over the years — a photograph of my mother taken on board a ship, surrounded by the ocean as she immigrates to Canada.  The series began as an experiment to see how a photo of a photo would look. In the process of shooting, the photograph is flipped to reveal the writing on the back. Yet, in viewing the images, it became clear that something magical happened that afternoon of shooting. In the juxtaposition of image and sky—the blueness of the sky replaces the sea’s immensity, the refracting sunlight, and the vague figure a seeming tarot card, presents a talismanic presence.