Casting for Life in Fiction
For this series, I spent several months auditioning actors to portray members of my family. Each casting decision was based not only on physicality but on a kind of intangible familiarity. For the audition, I dressed them in clothing from my childhood, styled wigs to replicate their hairstyles from that time and used period jewelry and props to complete each transformation. I wanted to fully see them as my family. The performance itself is central to this work—not just in the actors’ embodiment , but in my own role as an unreliable narrator. The images produced are not reenactments, they are misrememberings, performances of memory filtered through time, subjectivity, and emotional projection.
Father Audition Images
Middle Sister Audition Images
Older Sister Audition Images
Casting: In Search of Mother (Stacy) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Tatiana) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Heide) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Carolyn) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Debbie) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Brenda) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Laura) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Isabella) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Marilyn) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011
Casting: In Search of Mother (Jamie) 24x28 in, Archival Pigment Print, 2011