I began working with autobiographical and family histories using then nascent processes for manipulating photography using digital systems. The first works being a series created in 1983-84. The series “Second Generations” was the result - there were no flatbed scanners at the time, as such, I video digitised my formal portraits from birth through age 5, I then video digitised my adult face, using a Targa Board to then mix my adult features into these childhood portraits. The only option for print output beyond dot matrix as the time, was to directly photograph from the screen using a camera and 35mm black and white film. These images were then printed in the darkroom using traditional gelatin silver processes. “Legacies” were created in the early 1990’s after the birth of my twin daughters, Sarah and Eva, and the passing of my grandmother, Eva. These latter pieces were printed using the Iris Inkjet process, an early and much lauded way to translate digital images into large format archival prints. These prints were quite costly, as I recall, upwards of $150 per print, I was fortunate to receive my first grant to help fund these, an Southeast Regional National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship just prior to leaving Florida for Reno in 1993.