Kinkeeping is defined as “the act of maintaining and strengthening familial ties… a form of emotional labor done both out of a sense of obligation and because of emotional attachment.”

In June 2024, my great-grandmother turned 100 years old. “Kinkeeping,” an ongoing project, uses the process of photographing and printing images of the small town of Good Hart, Michigan—a place my family has returned to time and time again since the 1960s—to draw a line connecting four generations of my family and to explore the ways in which both land and memory are altered by time and experience.