Chloe Dichter

 Top: The Dichters, 28″ x 7″, cyanotypes on matzo crackers, 2021

Left: Herman, 28″ x 7″, cyanotype on matzo cracker, 2021

Below: Dolores(left), Franklin (right), cyanotype on matzo cracker, 2021

     By researching the history of my family, this work contemplates the precarious
ownership of my own history as a secular, patrilineally Jewish queer individual. This is an intensely personal search for ancestral connection, a humbling confrontation of what has been erased from the Jewish diasporic consciousness, and my sole duty to preserve the complicated
stories of my family as I am the last to carry its original name.
     The work uses archived family imagery translated through the cyanotype process and acts as a bridge between religion, history and memory; concurrently emphasizing the significance of the color blue within Judaism. Reconstructing my family tree by way of cyanotypes on matzo crackers, will shed light on the realities of lost cultural roots, systemic erasure, and anti-Semitic persecution. The delicacy of the matzo is representative of the infrastructure of my family, where cracks form and eventually fracture; leaving behind pieces to be salvaged and put back together.

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