The Re-Membered Father is a hand-painted time-based work that re-enters memory through 30,000 painting frames in motion. It is rooted in painting yet unfolds across duration, where figures and objects dissolve, recur, and reassemble like memory itself.
The work translates the testimony of Karen Jones—who grew up with a father marked by his service in World War II—into an immersive visual form. Her recollections of a stadium in snowfall, a gold afghan draped across a chair, or a bottle on a side table become motifs that shift and return, evoking the ways trauma fragments experience and re-membering attempts repair.
Situated at the intersection of creative nonfiction and visual art, The Re-Membered Father extends the tradition of painting into narrative and time. It opens a space for audiences not simply to watch a story unfold, but to enter the unstable terrain where memory, silence, and testimony overlap—and where art makes possible the reframing of the past.
At its core, the work asks: What if one new truth could transform every old memory?