Jane Lena Schulman

Family Inheritances II

The series, Family Inheritances II, is a further exploration and representation of the internal landscape of human experience, especially the psychological, emotional and interpersonal influence, from generation to generation, of our primary family relationships.

Traditional tools and materials were employed in making these photographs, as were methods, including multiple exposure, juxtaposition and movement, to facilitate the expression of the unconscious in this work.

Artist Bio:

In the basement of my childhood home I watched as my father made photographs under the light of a bare red bulb. It was the1950’s and my introduction to the magic of photography.

Not many years later, I was making photographs of my own – moody images of wind swept dunes at first, and then documentaryphotographs. In college and beyond, the images were often of light itself as a presence in the human landscape.

After completing an undergraduate degree in photography, I was introduced to the field of art therapy which integrated my love of art and an ability I discovered I had to support the growth and development of others.

While my career as a psychotherapist has allowed me only intermittent periods of photographic activity in the past years, it andpersonal history have led me to my current photographic interests.

While remembering my excitement in observing the process of photography in my father’s primitive darkroom, I’ve returned now to its practice in a dedicated and consistent way. For it is in creating photographs that I can experience moments of grace, feel transported,and perhaps be transformed.

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