The Last Address is an on-going series of montages exploring memory, imagination, and culture in the lives of twentieth century families largely from dispersed and vanishing Jewish communities throughout the world. As the turbulence of the twentieth century and the experience of dislocation and exile becomes more distant, intangible memories fade, indigenous voices diminish, and the personal effects these families selected to bring to the new world - their heirlooms from Exodus – are rapidly disintegrating. These relics - photographs, identification documents, religious artifacts, baby albums, pocket watches, lace torn from an ancestral wedding dress - become the material from which I compose my works-on-paper. The physical creases, scratches, and oxidation stains on so many of the original photographs are to an artist’s eye descriptive marks signifying the transitory quality of earlier photographic processes, as well as the ephemeral nature of human life.