Max with Papaya
Susan Worsham
American, born 1969
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