"Many of my projects have involved "traces" of things from the past. Reproducing various types of fossils, for instance. For this exhibition, comprised of two bodies of work, The Writer's Daughter and The Uncredited, I continue this search for meaning in things that have faded away.

Attempting to find or construct meaning can involve looking at traces of things that have been lost or only partially remembered and working to integrate them into the way we see the world around us."

"I had also been wishing I had more understanding of my parents, both of whom have passed away. My father was a special mystery to me, as he was missing throughout much of my childhood.

Warren McCollum, born and raised in New York City, grew up as a child actor, performing in many Broadway plays and radio shows, being constantly pushed by his "stage mother." After he graduated from high school, he moved to Los Angeles, seeking a career as a movie actor. Before he married my mother, he had about fifteen very small parts in Hollywood films, many as just an extra appearing in the background, or one with only one or two lines.

Soon after he married, he ceased seeking work in movies, and as a child I never saw the films he had been in, as they had been made well before I was born. Later in my life, and well after he had passed away, the Internet Movie Data Base appeared, and I was able to see the whole list of films. In most of them, he was listed as "uncredited," as his role was so small. Almost all of the movies could be purchased as DVDs and I began to collect and watch them to see what my mysterious father had been doing before I was born.

In the early 1980s I began to photograph scenes in TV shows where an indistinguishable framed artwork appeared in the background. I printed the photos, took close-ups of the blurred-out images, blew them up and framed them myself. I called the series, "Perpetual Photos," as they appeared all over the world on television sets, at twenty-four frames per second, leading to billions of images of unknown artworks. Of course the artists' names were almost never credited.

When I watched the films in which my father appeared uncredited, I decided to frame images of uncredited artworks from those films. I felt that this might help me confront my difficulties in understanding the meaning of my father's life."