Novak goes to the heart of this particular grief in the pictures of her own parents, captured when they were young and utterly enraptured with their little girl. Novak goes repeatedly back to the images of those early idyllic years, but tempers them with the ambiguity that life inevitably brings. The mantelpiece scene is part of a new picture that features a scattering of snapshots on a broad table. Viewed together, the picture's bits and pieces make up a grown woman, a person who is the sum of many past parts. A lovely Western landscape is languorous beneath a blue evening sky.
Pines stand tall at left, overlooking a rolling red-brown hill.
White ranch fences line a classic country road, curving metaphorically into the future. It's a peaceful scene but there's something unforeseen up among the trees. The face of her lovely young mother is up there smiling benevolently, the branches intertwining with her hair. An Installation continue through Sunday, April 29 at the Center for Creative Photography . Admission is free.