“A Daughter’s Survival Index”, an interdisciplinary project, investigates creativity, female identity, and modernism through the mother/daughter bond. These “studies” grew into two separate installations, “Less is Never More” (2019) and “Tales from the Mogul Archive” (2022).

Collages, Diptychs Patterns and Photographs from the “Daughter’s Index”

Rhoda /Susan Pregnant Diptych
Diptych was digitally created in 2014 from two analog photographs Mom took in 1965. An iconic image in the project, it represents the fertile creative banter between mother and daughter.

A Daughter’s Survival Index – Detail #1
“The Daughter’s Survival Index”, a series of digital prints, is comprised of artifacts from an archive I share with Mom: furniture, textiles, photographs, and interior décor. And is also a “key” to the project in its entirety. Focus photography.

Mogulmannekko
Design for wallpaper pattern. Pattern derived from: Mom’s 1965 proof sheet, a wallpaper swatch, and a Marimekko housedress. As with most components in this project, the historic artifacts were selected for their resonance between mother and daughter.

Echoes of Muybridge and Whistler’s Mother
Design for wallpaper pattern. The pattern was derived from a 1965 photographic proof sheet composed of Mom’s pregnant self-portraits, and, me mimicking Mom pregnant. The form and content of this pattern echoes images from art and photo history: “Whistler’s Mother” and Muybridge’s photographs.

Camouflage in Mom’s Montage
This collage was digitally created from a 1987 analog photograph of Susan in the Marimekko dress she gave Mom in the sixties, as she looks at a photo collage produced by Rhoda from the seventies. The background pattern is derived from the same collage.

‘Hi Susan, Hi Susan’, Diptych
Diptych was digitally created from two analog photographs Mom took in 1964. The title references a musical sequence in the 1964 film, “Bye Bye Birdie.”

Sleeping Princess in Rollers and Acne Cream
Pattern was created from one analog photograph Mom took of Susan in 1964.

Susan Dad Diptych
Diptych was digitally created from two analog photographs Mom took in 1964.

Mark, Pam, and Dad after Dinner – 1973

Mom Momentarily Reclining with Mending and Mylar Wall – 1974

A Daughter’s Survival Index – Detail #2
“A Daughter’s Survival Index”, a series of digital prints, is comprised of artifacts from an archive I share with Mom: furniture, textiles, photographs, and interior décor. And is also a “key” to the project in its entirety. Focus plywood and plastics.

A Daughter’s Survival Index – Detail #3
“A Daughter’s Survival Index”, a series of digital prints, is comprised of artifacts from an archive I share with Mom: furniture, textiles, photographs, and interior décor. And is also a “key” to the project in its entirety. Focus patterns and color.

My Brother Jess in Mom’s Living Room, 1980

Redecorating Mom’s Blue Living Room
An intervention, aka Photo Collage, of a 1980 analog photograph I took of Mom in the living room. This collage utilizes a wallpaper pattern from Mom’s bedroom, her rug, a dress pattern transformed into curtains, and my self-portrait on the wall.

This Dress is Like…
Storyboard for Music Video, and, a stand-alone image. The narrative connects mother-daughter reciprocity vis a vis clothing, photography, and interior décor.