Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Natalie Obregon Recabarren

Weaving in Every Corner, Tracing Back My Steps

The nature of this image is intimate and close-up, allowing for reflection upon tufts of hair, flesh, and fabric. The photograph and family archive both aim to preserve and immortalize moments, providing infinite duration to people as living phantoms. A spectre of persons and places is conjured by the technological process of a photograph and again in the production of a painting made in that photograph's likeness. I’m interested in the repetition of individuals, particularly family members, and the creation of simulacrums.