EXHIBITION DETAILS
The Child is the Father of the Man | Jacobi
May 25 - August 4, 2012
Reception - July 6, beginning at 6:00 p.m.
STATEMENT
The photographs in "The Child is the Father of the Man” address one of the themes that has always fascinated me -- how we age, how the child becomes the old man or woman, and what remains vital throughout a life. In Wordsworth's poem, the eponymous words "the Child is father of the Man" evoke a universe of metaphoric, visual possibilities. I juxtapose a contemporary portrait photograph of an elderly (or aging) person with his/her image as a child. I compose and layer the final image until the connection between mortality, memory and imagination, at least in my eyes and heart, becomes palpable.
