GALLERY Just Passing Through Series This series is about mortality and the commonness of everyday human life.  It reflects on the vast number of people who have come before us as well as those who will live after us.  The work also addresses   photography’s ability to physically outlast the human lifetime, and its unique authority as proof of our existence.  In addition, I want this work to celebrate the beauty of early photographs. Body Language Series The figures seen in the series Body Language have been excerpted from anonymous family photographs of children.  The children are posed, often having been dressed like adults, and their dislike of the process is visible. The awkward and stilted poses become even more evident after the figures are reduced to only stitched profiles on paper.  Body Language addresses that particular persona that people take on when being photographed.  In addition it plays with the ability of human perception to surmise so much from so little visual information. Heirloom Series Each Heirloom piece is a large wall installation made from approximately 16 “florets.”  The piece, Time/Life, is made from cut-up children’s book covers while Offspring is similarly constructed from photographic portraits of children.  Together the wall installations take on the look of a family quilt with each unit resembling the circular doilies of the 1930s.  While family heirlooms, such as books and photographs, in the past were handed down to the next generation, today we discard them, overwhelmed with our own accumulations. Other Work All my work expresses an interest in time, change, deterioration and mortality.  It also reveals my life-long in passion for photography and for previously owned common objects. I make mixed-media objects that are both two- and three-dimensional and use multiple processes such as sewing, painting, printmaking and assemblage. ©2010 Julia Nelson-Gal. All rights reserved.