Self Portraits According to My Mother

Each of us carries messages delivered either with love or ambivalence from our parents.  These may become theme songs in our lives, background noise or form the basis of how we feel about ourselves. 

The tasks of adulthood may require some form of reconciliation with those archaic messages: taking them to task, examining them with new eyes, accepting or rejecting them. 

I’ve used this series as part of that process for myself.  As with my other mixed media work, I used scraps of fabric, old neck ties, a small photo and other less identifiable materials.