and yet it's so warm, Brian Hawkins

This photograph, as well as the other photographs by Brian Hawkins displayed here, are part of the artist’s Images from Home series, which is making its debut in The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists. The titles of the works suggest the ways that ordinary places come to have personal meanings through their associations with memories.
Hawkins states:
“As the title of the series suggests, each of the photographs is taken on the property where I was raised and where I currently reside, once again. With each passing year, my connection to these spaces becomes deeper and they are imbued with even more meaning. I began taking these photos one year ago just as a family member started showing signs of memory loss. She has developed a complicated relationship to the property, no longer capable of perceiving it as her actual home but, rather, a facsimile of home, at once comforting and disconcerting. The act of making the photographs in this series has been a way for me to process these events, which have forced me to contemplate my own relationship to the place I call home.”