Paula Estey

These are painted and embellished portraits from my family’s archives of photographs over the past 100 years.

The pixels are the portals through which I access the stories inside the snaps. And even though one imagines a snap shot ‘freezing’ the moment, as the artist, I unfreeze it and open it to interpretation through mediums and intuition, through heart and soul. Through art.

These are how women tell their stories—through gesture, expression, nostalgia. These are my stories, hand-picked from the treasures of a lifetime,  honoring those who are gone, softening the rough road of grief.

There is great intimacy in reproducing a moment in a life. And because of this intimacy, this is an organic process–not a ’technique’; a moving force, not a static moment in time.

Because of my reverence, I believe that I am getting close to the truth about family, about love and loss, about aging and death–about life.

These moments hold
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