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This is part of series which uses Franz Kafka's Letter to his Father as a starting point, using text and images together. These images are centered around our own understanding of what constitutes place, physically and emotionally where we fit into the world. This perception of where we should be is coloured by emotion, and the memories attached to both where we are, and where we wish to be or not be. Letters to grew out of this discrepancy between memories of places, and changes to the nature of the space, seeking comfort in memory. Letters to also came from the woven nail sculpture I have been working on—something at once both comforting, and disquieting; in a way, the repetition of the work involved in creating such a piece, of the repeating nails, is itself an escape from.

Kafka's Letter to his Father is written about his home and childhood, and the unhappiness recalled there in the relationship with his father. The images taken from the sculptures grew into a dialog between the text and the nails to create more sculptur oriented work. The images are grittier, and the text deteriorates—Kafka's work, and mine, is about real people, rather than any kind of perfection.

—Kelsey Stephenson