The Family Album series, concerns family and familiar memories far away in time and place.  Two sisters––up in the sky, ever so high, swinging so free in the air.  Four little stair-steps on Granny’s front lawn.  Smile!  Look in the camera.  Say cheese.  Two little cousins sitting on the back stairs waiting for…something good.  Is that daddy?  Is the ice cream man coming?  Family memories add texture to our hearts.  And here on these canvases, I try to touch them, to experience the tactile mnemonics that are rich, melancholy, exhilarating, and sad––all at the same time.