This body of work entitled, I Wish You Knew Me: Was It Worth It? represents my personal losses due to the loss of my relationship with my father. The loss of people, spaces and places, and things is displayed in this collection. When I was in middle school my father stopped taking care of us and over time we stopped seeing each other.
I no longer went to spend time in my childhood home, which was his house. The images and artifacts recreated here show the way things were and the specific things that were lost. My anger, sorrow, and resentment have been a struggle and I continue to process a very specific type of grief as I live without my father. I am stronger than I was and have learned to let go; however, I do wish he knew me.