Thirty Five Years / One Week.

Linn Underhill

Thirty Five Years / One Week.

Rochester, NY

Visual Studies Workshop

1981

Linn Underhill begins the evocation of her sister, who died at the age of 35 of melanoma, with photographic clouds and the word memorize. The blurred photos suggest that Underhill struggled to capture these memories, however fragmentary, so that she could center and contain her grief. The text, also in fragments, unscrolls from the platen of a manual typewriter as a description of the cancer’s deadly progress, its objectivity in tension with the intensely personal images.

From the collection of Kathleen Walkup