During my mother’s residency in Hyde Park, Chicago she created these life-sized works partly inspired by her research into the horrors of various wars. They were inspired by both tombs. mummies. niches and gravesites and their contents as locations where families and ancestors would gather and celebrate or mourn the deaths of those family members.
In person these works are commanding and arresting. Seeing them surrounding you in a gallery is breathtaking. The title Ancestral Excavations also suggests her discovery or excavation of her family history and the legacy of her artistic father and her mother who died of cancer when Eve was a teenager. She was looking through, and at times incorporating, these photos as ink transfers. Perhaps I will show the remaining pieces someday in person to revisit how monumental they truly are.