Family Archive Portraits
Nadrea creates intimate screen print portraits from clients' family photographs, transforming personal archives into layered artistic narratives. Using screen printing as her base technique, she incorporates handwritten family information, historical context, and visual elements that recreate and honor specific memories. Each portrait becomes a personalized meditation on family history, combining the documentary nature of the original photograph with artistic interpretation that fills in the emotional and cultural details often missing from standard family snapshots. Through this process, she helps families reclaim and celebrate their visual legacies while creating new heirlooms that speak to both individual identity and collective memory.
This work aligns beautifully with her critical fabulation practice—taking existing family documentation and thoughtfully expanding it to include the fuller story of people's lives and relationships.
