The four-piece Step Children series is multi-layered conceptually; it references a personal narrative as well as the ontology of photography. The photographs depict my mother and her brothers on the steps of their home in Brainerd, MN. The year was c. 1915 and their mother had just died. Time stopped for the family and time stopped in the photographs. In a short time their father would remarry and they would become stepchildren. This series addresses history, place, gesture, memory, and the nature of photography.