Zora Murff

Photographers Zora J. Murff and Rana Young examine gaps that occur in visual communication, between what we know, and what we think we know. Through their dialogues about a shared experience -- exploring the void left by an absent parent -- the question posed between these artists is: what do you remember?  This exhibition creates a visual call and response surrounding these memories, and the particular way we remember through images. 
 
“My mom would sometimes tell me, “You have your father’s charm.” When she said this, she wasn’t paying me compliment, the words felt fatalistic. I remember the sound of his voice: gravelly and deep. I could listen to him talk for hours on end, there was a comfort there…perhaps he had worked his charm on me.”
 
“I’ve been told since I was a little girl that I have her eyes, her skin, her dark hair. I see myself when I look at pictures of her. I used to buy myself roses and lilies, the flowers she had chosen for their wedding. My dad said that she didn’t have it in her to be a mother; she was lonely, the type of lonely that company can’t fix.”