The Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC has acquired a portfolio of ten prints from my Peter's World series. This early work is close to home as it is a long term project with my nephew Peter who is on the autism spectrum.
The series began with me photographing him and his daily life. In the second stage of the collaboration, I gave him a polaroid camera and he began making his own photographs. He often dressed up as characters from plays and movies. His favorite characters were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I would often set up lights and a background and we would make photographs together during family gatherings in Kentucky and at my home in North Carolina. Both my work and his work are in the collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX as well as the Cameron Art Museum, N.C. and the Israeli Museum. It is Included in the book Disability and Art History: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, essay by Ann Millett-Gallant, Ashgate, UK; Artists and Muses: Peter’s World and Other Photo Essay by Susan Harbage Page” (1986-2000)
In the Path, Asheville, North Carolina, 1989
Peter with Light Saber, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
Peter with Clown Mask, 1994