Fabricated Memories

The small handmade artist book is created from composited childhood family snapshots with images made during a visit to England 20 years after her father’s death. These seemingly realistic events did not occur but accurately depict memories of my father and my childhood in England.
The work is presented as a handmade accordion book of digitally altered Polaroid transfers. The pages of the book are made from a delicate handmade paper to suggest the images, like life itself, is very fragile. As my father died from smoking, the book is bound in paper made from tobacco leaves and housed in a cigarette box stained with tobacco juice to lead the viewer into my fabricated memories further using the senses of sight, touch, and smell.