And, in everyday family , her most recent work, Truckenbrod utilizes what at first glance appear to be harmlessly nostalgic, even sentimental imagery and color palette in her quicktime movies that appear in a tiny square against a larger black square of the TV screen. An undulating cabbage dissolves to a red bandanna which unfolds slowly to reveal, like a slow-motion photograph of an opening flower, a black and white photograph of a young girl wearing a dress made of bandanna fabric. There is a definite message. And, as time goes by, viewers increasingly see the headlines of newspaper and magazine articles reproduced on the TV screen, accompanied by tumbling photos, line drawings and animated appliques of clothes waving in a digital breeze. And that when push comes to shove, if a young mother wants to utilize day care facilities so she may continue her education, she may lose custody.
Education is a primary road out of poverty.
A single mother who seeks this route to improving her family's economic viability may be in danger of losing her family completely. The words are spelled out for us, again, letter by letter, across a series of images of mothers and children. The accusatory tone becomes more insistent as we move through the scrapbook. What this means to viewers depends on the complex associations they bring as they engage with the artist's references to family, gender roles and current political debates. A pioneering work, Lorna was the first interactive art videodisc.