“Where Everything Comes to Rest and Where Everything Begins utilizes painting and image transfers on 16mm film to negotiate conceptions of the family structure and formative relations. I intended to simultaneously reproduce and deconstruct the source material by blurring, diluting, and disrupting the images the work is derived from. The work deals with the tension between care and distance, where the labour of painting and transfers imbues unfamiliar subjects with sentiment while retaining anonymity. The instability, ethics, and mythologies inherent within visual representations of the family are foregrounded. By weaving anonymous familial images and films with my own archives, I construct a fictionalized and collective understanding of the family structure shaped by material mediation. The familial archive is a mnemonic device; it allows for investigation and re-visitation of people and places, offering a ‘truthful’ depiction of the private sphere. I’m interested in what familial photographs and home videos conceal: what lies beneath the surface, and the complicated intersection of broader dominant networks, ideologies, and systems that shape the relationships that make up a family.”