This series of work, completed for my MFA thesis exhibition in 2011, represents an autobiographical investigation of family and memory constructed around the relationship between family snapshots, portraiture and painting. Using old photographs as a starting point, I explored the subtext of the domestic story, burrowing into those uncomfortable places typically left out of the family album. Through a process of translation, projection, interpretation and re-creation, memory becomes mutable and acquires new forms. Rather than following a strict narrative structure, the paintings act as vignettes, moving back and forth in time while paying homage to seminal stories that structure early identity.