Fractured fathers

Fractured Fathers, Benjamin D. Rinehart and Rachel Simmons, edition of 10, 2021 Digital and pressure prints on paper, two flextangles, pamphlet book and box. Collected by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, University of Utah, Baylor University, University of Miami, UW-Madison

Fractured Fathers is a collaborative artists book that began with a conversation between close friends about their complex relationships with their fathers, Jim and Terry. In the summer of 2020, during the first pandemic lockdown, they interviewed one another over video conferencing and transcribed the conversations. Their discoveries lead to the creation of two flextangles and a third collaborative book based on the transcripts. For the flextangles, they used photos of their fathers augmented through digital manipulation and pressure printing.

Everything was finalized during two in-person studio sessions in Appleton and Orlando. Through this process they found kinship between their common experiences & parallels between their family relationships and themselves.