Details

Title

Max with Papaya

Artist/Maker

Susan Worsham (American, born 1969)

Date

2011

Medium

Pigmented inkjet print

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Wanda Hopkins

Accession #

2019.185

Location

Currently not on view

In her ongoing series Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, Susan Worsham reflects on the slippery nature of memory and the role of family snapshots in constructing personal narratives. The photographs recall her relationship with her older brother, who took his own life when Worsham was a teenager. Casting the children of her friends as stand-ins for herself and her brother, Worsham stages poignant scenes that evoke the stillness of in-between moments not often pictured in family albums. Here, Max’s steady gaze betrays a sense of melancholy that tinges, as Worsham puts it, “the sweetness of childhood memory.”

Image Copyright

© (c) Susan Worsham

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