Heart - to - Heart

A few months later, I started experimenting with combining my grandmother’s paintings with my own photography using digital compositing techniques. In doing this, I discovered a resonance that sparked the Heart-to-Heart series. I created the images in an iterative process. The resulting images, harmonizing our work’s content and expression, not only speak to our individual aesthetics but also embody new and unique visual statements. The images present something of a dialog – a heart-to-heart conversation – between myself and my grandmother.
Separated by two generations, my grandmother and I both tried to capture moments of natural beauty with our different media. Bringing our two aesthetics together has allowed me to reconnect with her memory, and creating the series has been a very therapeutic experience. In this spirit I hope that these images will provide viewers with an opportunity for visual meditation.
The series is dedicated to my grandmother, Sigríður Candi, who will always be an inspiration.