Susan’s interactive Work explores multi-generational tensions when it comes to doing what is expected and what is desired.
An excerpt from the project:
A letter from 1957 — handwritten by a 22-year-old woman to her unborn daughter — reveals a secret. In loopy handwriting, the writer describes her hopes and dreams striated by cultural norms and society’s tensions. “I wonder, and will do so when you are my age and when your daughter is my age – I’ll wonder ‘what if…'” That woman was my mother.
Fast forward to my own 22-year-old daughter, for whom career and life experience take priority over marriage. We empathize with the generations who came before BOTH of us. To my daughter when she wonders is a story of five generations of women, parent-child communications and what it is to be female in an analogue turned digital world.
