Oliver, 4; Beth, 36

June 2, 2017 10:02 AM

FamilyTree is a photo collage project by artist Bobby Neel Adams, joining portraits of intergenerational family members together along a ragged border.

More from Bobby Neel Adams, previously:

- a post from madamjujujive about the closely related AgeMaps (though the url structure has changed since 2004, breaking those links; see AgeMaps, Couples, Broken Wings)

- an increeeeedibly neglected post from last year about the Memento Mori series, which I guess will teach Johnny Wallflower to ever post about non-cute animals

posted by cortex (4 comments total)

These are fascinating but I find them kind of unsettling. I think it's the ragged borders...they bring up the feeling that the faces have been damaged.
posted by Elly Vortex at 10:19 AM on June 2, 2017 [1 favorite]

These are fascinating but I find them kind of unsettling. I think it's the ragged borders...they bring up the feeling that the faces have been damaged.

Yeah, I am fighting the injury interpretation too hard mentally to be able to appreciate these properly.
posted by Samizdata at 10:30 AM on June 2, 2017

Yeah, I like the idea behind them, but they remind me of a poster for a 90's horror movie.
posted by blueberry at 2:11 PM on June 2, 2017

Yeah, I am fighting the injury interpretation too hard mentally to be able to appreciate these properly.

Try to look beyond the obvious to the nuanced.
posted by Thella at 8:03 PM on June 2, 2017