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By Stefan Milne 4/13/2021 at 8:00am
ON VIEW
Daisy Patton Talks Forgetting Is So Long
The painter takes discarded family photos and “sort of shocks them back into being.”
“That photograph came from eBay. It’s from Lebanon. What’s really interesting about it is the presence that she had, this sort of regal quality, which is why I incorporated the flower crowns. It’s a sort of a beautification of the original photograph. It’s a way of allowing the viewer to see the person again, in a different, re-enlivened context. For me, a lot of times when I’m collecting photographs, there’s a sort of falling in love process with each one. My father is Iranian, although I never met him. There are a lot of ways in which I think about those childhood memories in this specific photograph.”