Notes on the work, Everything I know of Alma Kincade
In the spring of 2015, I was digging around in the back of an old homestead I had purchased in the middle of the desert out in Wonder Valley, California. During this excavation I found a collection of objects and moments from a life. Journals and letters, pieces of photographs, a thimble, a crochet hook. I pulled them out and sat there in the desert sun reading through the life of a woman by the name of Ruth Alma Kinkade/Kincaide. There were so many missing pieces, years of her life, that are physically absent from my discovery. I only have these parts of her life to define her. I started creating still life photographs based on these objects, curating different arrangements based within the texts. For two groupings I worked with a microscope to capture close-up images of her eyes (found in different images in her journals) for one set and images of her lover’s signatures (found on her collection of love letters) for the other set.
Everything I know of Alma Kincade is an ongoing project until the point when I stop discovering new information about her. It will be at that point that the project will cease.