(1911-2010)

This work reflects the collective lifespans of my father and grandfather. The overlap and parallels of their lives embody the turbulent horrors of genocide, displacement, and emigration as well as oscillations in their adherence to orthodoxy. As their third generation, I am imprinted with inter-generational conflict to resolve the role of faith.

In the 1960s, my grandfather founded the clothing company, ‘Judy Garments.’ My father left school at seventeen to work in the family business. He closed the company in 2007 and passed away in 2010.

In 2019, I began to source and buy my (grand)fathers’ dresses in an effort to reclaim vestiges of my history, continuing an unresolved conversation with both men.

On 7 July 2021, I set fire to four of the dresses in the woods of the Djadjawurrung land.