Variations on prayers

 When an artist is making a work, I’m not sure how much they can actually think about the audience.  The degree of communication is always a dubious question.  I try to pay attention to the integrity of the work and worry about translation later.  The most successful work I’ve done is where it is completely open to interpretation.  It doesn’t dictate one way of making.  Sherin Neshat 

mystery of Anna

My grandmother's name was not in the family bible when we searched for it during our 2013 visit to Finland.
We think that she was born around 1896.
She had three sons:
Martin born 1916
Paul born 1923 (my dad)
Henry born 1929
She wrote letters to Lydia - an older sister born 1885
She wrote letters to Kerttu - Lydia's daughter- probably born 1919
My grandmother's name was Anne
She came to Canada from Finland with my father when he was 5 years old to get married to a widower with 4 children.