These are common themes in almost everyone's childhood. We read about them in group emails and reflect on how simple and peaceful life was back then. These memories tend to be left out, yet they are still an essential part of your childhood. The environment in which you grew up largely effects those positive and negative memories.
Different memories come from different families.
Although the idea of a nontraditional family is taking on a broader meaning today, here I intend it to refer to the physical absence of someone in the home, such as a parent. Whether it is divorce, death, abandonment, a job, or a stepparent, something has removed a pillar in the ideal family structure. The physical and emotional absence of key figures in your childhood can strain relationships, blur family identity, and effect your total growing up experience. In representing these feelings of absence three dimensionally, several themes were explored in this body of work. Structurally, each piece is figural and conceptually implies the absence of a human figure.