Laura Makinen
Swept Away Her Tree Man and Dog (Dis)appear Graduation Day Encounter My Father on his Mother's Lap with Shadow Mom and Bill in the Backyard Three in the Snow Ian Ice Skater The Last Dance Mom and Bill in the Backyard II Solarized by the Swingset Captured by the Water Best Friend Drawing in the Kitchen Nightgown Three Girls I Three Girls II Three Girls III Two in the Water Woman and Her Shadow My Father and the Shadow Dandies in the Woods Check Out These Legs Open Door
I collect old photographs. I love the weight of personal histories captured in an image. I feel like a time traveler, sifting through visual memories to find moments of beauty, humor, mystery. Although most of the people in these old images are gone from this world, they reach out from the past and affect me. I see my work as similar to that of a dj. I am a visual sampler; I search through piles of images to find those that resonate the most, then alter and present them to the world in a new form. Although impermanence and death are unavoidable realities, I still feel moved by the fleeting moments caught on film.