GJ: Your series, Recollected Memories, gives us narratives created through combining old family photographs over your own landscape images. What’s the overall narrative you looked to establish in making these? Is it something like an alternative family history? Or perhaps you use your family’s pictures as a source of imagery to tell a story that’s unrelated to them?
JP: Recollected Memories started with a very real story of the migration of a barn on my grandmother’s homestead to another ranch tens of miles away. That story got me to looking at my family’s albums and listening to family members tell their stories and also the stories they remembered about our family. Those personal histories and variations of stories led me to creating these images. It wasn’t necessary for me to tell the story accurately because as memories and stories they seemed to have evolved over time. But what was always there was that interaction with the land. The land provided and sustained these people migrating west, homesteading, farming, vacationing, etc. The stories were rooted in the land, so it was important for me to tell the story not only of the people, but also the land.
The question then becomes, how do you tell a story that may be over a hundred years old in some cases in a single photograph? The short answer is, you can’t. So ultimately for me, it was about creating the mood of the story. I’m not sure it’s possible to tell the actual story in a single image, but photographs do have a way of capturing a mood and that’s what I became most interested in. And from there, the series sort of evolved on its own.
GJ: Your series, Recollected Memories, gives us narratives created through combining old family photographs over your own landscape images. What’s the overall narrative you looked to establish in making these? Is it something like an alternative family history? Or perhaps you use your family’s pictures as a source of imagery to tell a story that’s unrelated to them? JP: Recollected Memories started with a very real story of the migration of a barn on my grandmother’s homestead to another ranch tens of miles away. That story got me to looking at my family’s albums and listening to family members tell their stories and also the stories they remembered about our family. Those personal histories and variations of stories led me to creating these images. It wasn’t necessary for me to tell the story accurately because as memories and stories they seemed to have evolved over time. But what was always there was that interaction with the land. The land provided and sustained these people migrating west, homesteading, farming, vacationing, etc. The stories were rooted in the land, so it was important for me to tell the story not only of the people, but also the land.The question then becomes, how do you tell a story that may be over a hundred years old in some cases in a single photograph? The short answer is, you can’t. So ultimately for me, it was about creating the mood of the story. I’m not sure it’s possible to tell the actual story in a single image, but photographs do have a way of capturing a mood and that’s what I became most interested in. And from there, the series sort of evolved on its own.
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