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]]>Normal.dotm 0 0 1 267 1523 lalala 12 3 1870 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Father, stepmother, mother, stepfather, stepbrother, half-brother, stepbrother, half-­brother, half-­sister, half-­brother.

In order of age I am second of seven, but I could be most accurately described as the middle child; I am in the middle of two families. It is strange how words create a hierarchy in a family. It is often important to families for someone to carry on their name, but really a name is only a word. Step, half, biological. All words used to describe a type of mother or father or brother or sister. It seems as if no one spends much time thinking about how these linguistic creations place such a great weight on our relationships and how we think about them. Why do we need to create these labels? They only seem to create distance from a central family unit, regardless of weather or not it is a blended family.

Through my work I examine the role of “blended families” in society, but more specifically the role of those stuck in the middle of two worlds. Where do I belong? Whom do I belong to? These questions arise quite often as a child in-between. I may live with one family, but share the name of another. Is family about blood, a name, or sharing a physical space?

I have been obsessively searching for my definition of “home” since my mother’s side of my family moved from our hometown. I began with photographing the spaces around me and then to a more literal interpretation of my relationships by actually photographing my family. Through portraits of my family and the objects that represent them, I piece together my place in a broader familial context. Environmental portraits and candid photographs are presented together as visual representation of the line I straddle when photographing my family. I am slowly piecing together all of the elements that make up my immediate family through my photography.

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