In The Backspace

My Brother Todd

Carol Saft

June 02 – 26, 2010
Reception / Thursday, March 03, 6–8pm

Blurring the line between portraiture and social document, the work constructs a view of family that refuses simple classifications of function and dysfunction. Like video 'dispatches' from the suburban frontlines, the fantasy roles Todd enacts explore the epic side of safety in an otherwise banal world of house alarms and gated developments. Todd is a sort of Everyman: post-Industrial, post 9-11, post-Post-Modern, and there are few heroic moments in such a life as Todd himself asserts, “I am just a man trapped in a Man’s body.”