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Growing up, family was often a mixed bag. For me, this was verily the case. Raised by a biploar mother had its ups and downs, pun intended. But plunging myself behind a camera always helped me rework my familial images of what was and what was to be. And I continue to do this today. As the self-declared, family phot-orator, I am rarely in a picture, save the few I manipulate on my Iphone. But in my latest book, Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art With Your Photography, the reader has an opportunity to output his or her images into creations that can be held, worn, or pocketed. Take this image below of my mother: here she is frozen in time against the backdrop of my childhood home. But now she adorns this cyanotype pillow and I see her in a more (palletable?) palatable light:

And then below are my father and mother, captured on their wedding day; but I manipulated them in Photoshop in a sacred mandala shape, and then fired it it onto glass using another method I discuss in my book:

Casting these images in a new light allows me to rework my childhood and preserve it in a new medium, such as this image of my father, created with Grafix papers and then made into a cold connection jewelry pendant:

So really if you follow some of the steps in my book, and these are just a sampling of what you can make, you, too, can rework your childhood images into whatever you image them to be.

Happy Thanksgiving and ever art.