TAKE GOOD CARE:  PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES & ARTIST BOOK

Photography
Sequencing & Editing
Book Design & Production

Take Good Care is a photographic series exploring memory, loss, and inheritance through the clothing and belongings of three generations of women. The work moves between still life and portraiture, presence and absence, using inherited garments as stand-ins for those no longer here. Originally developed as an MFA thesis at Hartford Art School, the series was sequenced, edited, and produced as a hand-bound book printed in duotone with a single color interruption.

The series comprises black and white photographs of inherited clothing and personal objects alongside portraits and self-portraits. Still life images range from archival and restrained to gestural and tactile, emphasizing the material qualities of fabric and the way light reveals presence within ordinary objects. Portraits introduce a generational dimension, bringing these objects into the everyday and making them part of a living narrative.

The book was designed as an intimate object, small in scale and deliberate in its material choices. The title is blind-embossed into a soft board cover. Interior images are printed in duotone, with a single full-bleed color image interrupting the sequence, a deliberate break in rhythm. The binding is singer-sewn, using thread that matches the color image, a quiet detail visible only at the spine.