Dead Reckoning brings together lens-based works that investigate my ancestral heritage. Through research and invention, the work responds to and abstracts this material to consider the archetypal nature of roles played within my family. I use repetitive physical movements to embody, remember, and release actions my family has performed. These gestures posit that somatic awareness has the ability to relinquish intergenerational trauma. This embodiment questions distinctions of female and male, young and old, past and present. These binaries blend, dissolve, and are interwoven with ideas of the mystical. While the impetus of the work is personal and specific, the content offers viewers a mirror to reflect on their own histories.

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