As we weather the current pandemic, I’ve been thinking a lot about my mother. Jenny Mabel Rottenfusser was born during World War I, grew up during the Great Depression and the Spanish Flu and married my father after he was discharged from the Air Force at the end of World War II. They homesteaded on a farm in central Alberta and poverty and hardship were a way of life. Money was short and film was precious, but Mom continued to document the world around her.
This period of self-isolation has allowed me the time and space to reflect on the resilience of the human spirit. Using Mom’s photos as a point of departure, I am exploring my roots and what it meant to grow up in postwar rural Alberta.
30" X 40"
acrylic/oil/oil stick on canvas
$2200
