Like many people, I have lots of family photographs in my house. In Personal History, I imagine a person exploring these photographs to learn more about his family, and in the end, about himself. The space he's entered moves him along from the soldier sitting on a tent on the left to the landscape on the right and then to the large head of the elder woman in the center. Presumably he could go farther into the scene to view even more family photographs.

In this variation of my style, I create a space and then set up smaller pictures within that space to move the viewer's eye along. Its one of a number of ways that I've found to take a single canvas and in a sense, create multiple pictures that somehow relate to each other.

This picture also shows how I'll sometime mix color with black and white. "Our Son, the Astronaut" and "The Swimming Hole" are two other examples of this particular technique.

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