Home through Time Final Video
My ongoing photography project, “Home in Time,” is motivated in great part by the beauty I feel is revealed in the textures created by the effects of time. But my interest in these houses goes beyond just the images themselves. I always wonder about, and have begun to search for, the stories hidden behind the curtains still hanging in a broken window and the cracked tiles in a bathroom and the peeling paint on an old white fence. These were the efforts of someone somewhere in time to create a home.

For me, the notion of home is intimately connected with family, and in taking photographs of old houses I tend to picture children and parents and grandparents living in these spaces that at one time were new and robust and maybe represented somebody’s dream home. I’ve created a video that is meant to symbolize that connection of family and home and the effects of time and aging on both.

I suspect that my video will have a greater emotional effect on viewers of the baby-boom generation than it will on twenty-somethings. Our parents are nearing the end of their lives and our children are making us the grandparents. The Circle of Life. It’s a romantic notion, but sometimes the reality sucks.

(Video below)