1990, my younger, gay brother died of Aids and other complications.
1992, my Mother, Margaret Lunt, modelled as Ramba Mama in my work, ‘Ramboys: A Bookless Novel’.
1993/4, she participated on the ‘Adrienne Clarkson Presents: Evergon’. Immediately after viewing, my Father went on a tirade. Two days later, he was in the hospital with a heart attack, brought on by rage.
1999, my Father died of cancer. After the burial, while Margaret & I were driving from Niagara to Montreal, she suddenly stated: “You don’t photograph me nude anymore.” I had never photographed my Mother totally nude, so during that visit, at her insistence, we began the ‘Margaret & I’ series. Margaret is well aware of the power that these images possess. Unapologetically, she is revealed as a strong woman within her aging and collapsing body. The mirroring image in ‘The Maid and the Black Cat are Dead’, proclaim us as surviving familial compatriots.
2008, Margaret will be eighty-nine and I sixty-two. We now live together.
