Family photos are an idealized image that allows others to believe things are better than they seem. This is a project where I am going back and revising personal family photos. I go back and manipulate the photos using text, texture and the use of erasure in each image. This process is meant to best depict the reality not caught in the images my family collected. My family was confusing, chaotic, and difficult; these photos depict the history I remember and my reflections upon the past.