Painting
Counting Your Fingers
The ubiquity of family photos and videos allows for a projection of familiarity and the utilization of myth-making. I find the aesthetic commonality and shared conventions among familial archives extremely generative; the codified message of... More
Painting
Little Houses
The ubiquity of family photos and videos allows for a projection of familiarity and the utilization of myth-making. I find the aesthetic commonality and shared conventions among familial archives extremely generative; the codified message of... More
Painting
Looks Like You
The ubiquity of family photos and videos allows for a projection of familiarity and the utilization of myth-making. I find the aesthetic commonality and shared conventions among familial archives extremely generative; the codified message of... More
Painting
Shoes in Bed
The ubiquity of family photos and videos allows for a projection of familiarity and the utilization of myth-making. I find the aesthetic commonality and shared conventions among familial archives extremely generative; the codified message of... More
Installation
Stick Horses and Toy Trains
The familial myth upheld by imagery can be destabilized by fabricating a fictionalized version of the family unit. I wanted to explore the destabilization of memory through the degradation of found footage by means of the image transfer process on... More
Painting
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... More
Work by
Natalie Obregon Recabarren
Painting
“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...” [More]