I've always heard stories about my family in México through my parents, but the only real chances I would ever get to meet them were the handful of family trips to Santa Juana, Zacatecas, México. I was able to see some of them through a recent trip and at the time, I did what naturally came to me; I photographed them. This was my first time coming back to this place with some kind of photography background and so I carefully took my time to photograph them without ever really realizing how ephemeral life can be.
In 2018, I finally began to work on the negatives I shot of my distant family through digitally blending the photographic layers in efforts to perpetuate what I learned about them at the time. These inkjet prints were rendered on alternate textured substrates to further point out my lesson on ephemerality. This didactic juxtaposition discerns its way through this on-going full-bleed print project.