After my grandmother died, my aunt delivered to me a cache of sketches that my mother had done in her late teens and early 20’s, before I had ever been conceived. My grandmother had held onto them for over four decades, and my aunt had come across them while clearing out the house. I had never seen my mother’s work before because I was adopted shortly after my birth and did not get to know my mother or her family until after I was an adult. The familiarity in her style and structure was striking, so I decided to give them new life - to finish what my mother had started some 40 or 50 years before. I took photos of the sketches and then digitally finished the compositions, filling in compositional gaps and adding color.