As I consider the images from my childhood I see a story unfold of how my siblings and surroundings shaped me. The pictures offer a view of our home and my everyday life. I have used this visual record to examine where I come from, to unearth the familial stories that ground me to who I am. My perceived sense of “self” and the physical and emotional ideas of “home” was the foundation I based my personal identity on. The physical home has been lost, but the stories around it remain. These visual histories remain in my mind, existing and evolving in daydreams about their experiences. They flutter on the edge of my memory, almost forgotten, merging and blending together. In my adulthood my relationships with various family members has changed. I have increasingly found that my perception of what occurred in my childhood has changed as well. Much of my work is an attempt to revision these dreams and to make sense of their meanings.
About the Artist
Chris Peregoy is a photographer who has been actively showing photographically derived work for the past 40 years. Originally trained in traditional photographic practices, his current work crosses the boundaries between digital, traditional and primitive photography and marries digital image-making with historic photographic processes and painting. His images deal with forgotten or imagined memories. His work has been shown in North and South America, throughout Europe, and in Japan. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts InterArts grant and two Maryland State Individual Artist Grants. Peregoy's work with pinhole photography led him to form his own company, the Pinhole Blender Company, which sells his uniquely designed cameras throughout the world. Chris Peregoy holds M.F.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.Featured Work
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