When I was eleven, my father died and I inherited all of his photographs, negatives and slides.  When my fathers' mother and father died (two months apart) nine years later, I inherited their photographs, negatives and slides.  As the youngest one in my family, and as a collector of anything and everything, I realized that it was my responsibility to hold on to all I was given so our family history will be passed on to further generations.

Because of the Polaroid transfer process, the imperfections are what can make the image.  Many of the slides I use to make the transfers were taken in places I don't know about, or of people I have never met, and with little information and no one to really ask.  I was able to construct my own family history and visually write my own stories.  The process of Polaroid transfers is a very uncontrolled rush;  the surprise and imperfections in the emulsion are what makes working with film in general a more exc iting process for me than digital.