What can we inherit from the generations before us? Eye colour and face shape indeed, but what else? Situation and context? Memory and pain? A propensity to violence or to creativity?

"The Ties that Bind" is a self-portrait of the fractured and leaking versions of my "self" shaped by my personal history and the memories I can't let go of. Each self is in constant tension as I try to be more than, perhaps better than, possibly cured of, the things I inherited.

The poem “Inheritance” was written to accompany this work and is linked below.