Bari Pallarino

Cedar Lane

Cedar Lane is a series of images - made and found, along with handwritten letters from my family. This body of work focuses on themes of familial ties, shared trauma, and memories. Ideas and experiences of loneliness, discomfort, and a sense of closure are present through a series of photographs of domicile. The combination of made and found images accompanied by letters that embody words of family connections enables me to form a narrative from a collection of memories of place. These images and text give context to the cast of characters, interactions, and inherent ties, by documenting an ever-changing domestic environment. Over time the work has become about self-realization and healing. The more time I spent creating, the more time I realized this work was no longer about the space being documented, it was about me.

There’s a Jungian theory “The Shadow'', essentially, the Shadow is an unconscious aspect of the personality that the conscious ego does not identify in itself; or the entirety of the unconscious. The therapy technique known as shadow work is the process in which you take these “stuffed'' feelings or thoughts and bring them to the surface. Cedar Lane is a visual representation of my own shadow; It confronts all the things I have spent years “stuffing” and brings comfort to the uncomfortable.