In every portrait, the mother's dazzling mouth is front and center, sometimes all alone, magnified to gigantic, almost monstrous size. Other times the smile is set in the chin and neck, or shown with the nose and a lock of hair. This one shows the lively young woman's torso, dolled up in a two-piece bathing suit and radiantly sunlit. Joined with these pale, grainy pictures are shots that are evidently reconstructions of a memory. These darker, murky pictures show a shiny dark dress in what seems to be a bedroom.
Somebody is under the silky fabric and that somebody seems to be lolling provocatively on a bed.
The dress is draped across knees, lies on the sheet, hangs from a provocative shoulder. These photos are abstracted compositions in dark and light, but they're sensual, tentatively moving into the verboten terrain of a parent's sexuality. Vogt has created a series of finely crafted artists' books in Aberrations and Other Photographic Artist's Books. A lot of meticulous effort has gone into these productions. Not only did Vogt take the photographs that illustrate them and write their texts, she's assembled them with the utmost care, making cutout collages, gluing and layering laser prints and photocopies made on fine papers, and stitching them all together with thread.