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Broken Dishes and Pet Flies

Melissa  Ehrenreich

1995
Signed Edition of 25 (+ 1 Artist Proof)
edition of 25

"Broken Dishes and Pet Flies" is an ongoing collaborative project between my grandmother and me. I started using found music books to record her stories in because they were just there, as have her stories always been. To me, my grandmother was always the storyteller./ I grew up hearing many of these stories over and over again. Writing them down is a way for me to honor her life in her presence, in a way that she too finds meaning. It is the passing down of information from one generation to another. Through the spontaneity of the process I have tried to capture the folklore and our time shared. These short stories form a mythology, and a portrait of my grandmother.

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