There are two images here. One is in the background. They are of 5 sisters: my mother and her sisters. Their father wanted boys very badly. He got his wife pregnant five times, all of which resulted in girls. Still he did not give up. He gave them all boys…
This is my grandmother on my mother’s side. She was the bedrock to my mother’s family. She supported a family of 7 as a seamstress and with dividends from her father’s company when her husband who was a writer did not earn enough money. This is the only photo I…
This also focuses on my father’s side of the family. On the right hand is an image of him, his eldest sister, and his aunt (behind his sister). The other two figures were the neighbors. My father’s father went back to China to find a wife and brought her to Indonesia. She…
This is the first piece from my parents’ photo collection that I made. I found this group of forgotten images on my last visit to see my folks. It was all neatly wound in plastic that I don’t think anyone has opened since at least 1983 when we emigrated out of…