I was hit by an unstoppable idea of putting myself into old photos of my family lately.
The juxtaposition of my present self with my family is a reflection of how much I retrospected on my life. I thought about the bittersweet relationship with my dad, the love & bond with mom since dad passed away and the rather disconnected relationship with my brothers.
Funny how much I looked forward to growing up I was young, and how much I'm looking backwards now. (Grr...I'm going to be 38 next month!)
As I take this little self portrait project more seriously, I begin to wonder if I could proclaim the project as my work? By digitally inserting my present self into a old photograph taken by someone who is dead, can I claim the photograph as a self portrait? I feel like I'm telling a story which has been told before, but in a different way. Is it my story then?
