https://www.staffordsmith.net/project-4 daily 0.75 2020-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216118341-SPKQUMJ6VV532ATV7ZAC/09.Smith_CultureClash.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Culture Clash These collages involving old family photos are my way of seeking to join the disparate pasts of my bi-cultural roots, from which I am largely estranged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216118341-SPKQUMJ6VV532ATV7ZAC/09.Smith_CultureClash.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Culture Clash These collages involving old family photos are my way of seeking to join the disparate pasts of my bi-cultural roots, from which I am largely estranged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1448246471361-3VNX17J75E6KQJ6PQR0E/image-asset.jpeg Ancestry in Progress - Glacial Fantasy The photographs are old enough that the people who knew those depicted in the most recent of them are quite advanced in age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216077407-CU09MDDYKPFQMRS45O5D/05.Smith_Attention_Japs.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Attention Japs! The photographs speak of a time more foreign than distant lands; a time of imperialism, industry tycoons, plantations, samurai, speakeasy’s, privilege, and world war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1483240106596-2SG87QSASCUNFLDPL6VT/Smith_Stafford_MemoryDesire002.jpg Ancestry in Progress - The Lepidopterist They represent the legacy of two families separated by a vast ocean who had no idea that one day their destinies would intersect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1575309482037-XPLWD48I2Z7Y4H5NXRTE/Smith_08.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Picture Bride These old photos are combined with other photos gleaned from thrift shops, garage sales, and photos I have taken myself, to help me understand who I am in the surreal context of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216109154-K8IC3FXTBSUSR9FZKRXM/08.Smith_ToAllPersons.jpg Ancestry in Progress - To All Persons... I try to make sense of these faces that peer out through a sepia haze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1483240146430-TAP5GQVIINZFQ5IAKG2U/Smith_Stafford_MemoryDesire009.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Power Play They were signifiers of memory once, but as those memories fade away they become free radicals, relevant to me only by the names scrawled on their backs and the albums from which they have fallen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1448246586719-T0WZ5IEVCAO3ZPNM2FCS/NuclearFamily.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Nuclear Family on Holiday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216033392-GSDHHM8FFVEHLJSE9HJO/02.Smith_AccidentalAncestry.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Accidental Ancestry I am constructing a narrative of my ancestry that is imagined and fanciful, but it is my own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216162724-OWWM6SRO1OSYANBYC1N0/06.Smith_ThePersistance_ofMemory.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Persistence of Memory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1554216371513-A3ODHF5JGS7GCKKAHSLS/smith_stafford_ancestry.13.jpg Ancestry in Progress - Rites of Spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1575309498181-J9IM88QOZZ0UF5G4VLTJ/Smith_09.jpg Ancestry in Progress - The Matriarchs https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog daily 0.75 2021-11-22 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2019/11/27/neighborhood-project monthly 0.5 2019-12-02 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2019/4/2/getting-published monthly 0.5 2019-04-02 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2017/7/23/photography-in-the-digital-age monthly 0.5 2017-07-23 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2016/5/5/leaving-for-prague monthly 0.5 2016-05-06 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2016/5/5/festfoto-porto-alegre-brazil monthly 0.5 2016-05-06 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2015/6/2/artprize-2015 monthly 0.5 2015-06-02 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2014/12/5/write-up-in-feature-shoot monthly 0.5 2014-12-05 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2014/11/7/ultimate-selfie-at-bethleham monthly 0.5 2014-11-08 https://www.staffordsmith.net/blog/2014/11/6/pov-at-kendall-college-for-art-and-design monthly 0.5 2014-11-06 https://www.staffordsmith.net/projects-1 daily 0.75 2015-08-15 https://www.staffordsmith.net/new-ideas daily 0.75 2016-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a2f7de4b0a9e47679838a/1459038413620-9YMZRG336M7M2X5MVQH5/PastoralTragedy.jpg New Ideas - Pastoral Tragedy This is a photo of an image of a Country Dairy bottle of chocolate milk next to the actual bottle. 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