FAMILY OUTING
Family Outing documents my family’s weekend and summer vacations at a remote spot at Lake Mohave on the Arizona/Nevada border. Revisiting the same lake in the Mohave desert since the 1970s. In addition to more commonplace activities like boating and swimming, the primary vacation pastimes favored by my family were gunplay, target practice, and trap shooting. In clusters and grids of photographic images, exploring the beauty of the bucolic landscape and my family’s ease with weapons contrasted with tanned skin and deep blue water. Guns and vacations went together in a normal way. Vacations are a time of bonding and relaxation. Journal entry, "The memory of trying to relax - floating on rafts - dry heat; the stillness of the desert, interrupted by the inconsistent popping of guns behind our camp."
Family Outing is a new look at my family history and years of experience at this place.
This work was shown in New York's oldest alternative gallery White Columns (solo show) in 2002/2003, group shows at SF Camerawork, UC Riverside. Published on the front cover of Creative Camera magazine a London-based publication, and included in Rebecca Solnit's, "As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art.