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These photographs are part of a larger body of work I call Relative Moments, which has chronicled the lives of my parents and other relatives since 1986. When I discovered the series of accumulated "leaving and waving" photographs, I found a story about family, aging, and the sorrow of saying good-bye. In 2009, there is a photograph where my father is no longer there. He passed away a few days after his 91st birthday. My mother continued to wave good-bye to me. Her face became more forlorn with my departures. In 2017, my mother had to move to assisted living. For a few months, I photographed the good-byes from her apartment door. In October of 2017 she passed away. When I left after her funeral, I took one more photograph, of the empty driveway. For the first time in my life, no one was waving back at me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition at Charlotte Street Foundation La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO August 2018 Leaving and waving, 7/1991 Leaving and waving, 7/1991 Leaving and waving, 6/1992 Leaving and waving, 6/1992 Leaving and waving, 7/1994 Leaving and waving, 7/1994 Leaving, 11/1995 Leaving, 11/1995 Leaving, 12/1995 Leaving, 12/1995 Leaving and waving, 5/1996 Leaving and waving, 5/1996 Leaving and waving, 7/1996 Leaving and waving, 7/1996 Leaving and waving, 9/1996 Leaving and waving, 9/1996 Leaving and waving, 12/1996 Leaving and waving, 12/1996 Leaving and waving, 6/1997 Leaving and waving, 6/1997 Leaving and waving, 12/1997 Leaving and waving, 12/1997 Leaving, 5/1998 Leaving, 5/1998 Leaving and waving, 9/1998 Leaving and waving, 9/1998 Leaving and waving, 12/1998 Leaving and waving, 12/1998 Leaving and waving, 5/1999 Leaving and waving, 5/1999 Leaving and waving, 9/1999 Leaving and waving, 9/1999 Leaving and waving, 11/1999 Leaving and waving, 11/1999 Leaving, 12/1999 Leaving, 12/1999 Leaving and waving, 4/2000 Leaving and waving, 4/2000 Leaving, 6/2000 Leaving, 6/2000 Leaving, 10/2000 Leaving, 10/2000 Leaving and waving, 12/2000 Leaving and waving, 12/2000 Leaving, 6/2001 Leaving, 6/2001 Leaving and waving, 7/2001 Leaving and waving, 7/2001 Leaving and waving, 12/2001 Leaving and waving, 12/2001 Leaving and waving, 3/2002 Leaving and waving, 3/2002 Leaving and waving, 7/2002 Leaving and waving, 7/2002 Leaving and waving, 12/2002 Leaving and waving, 12/2002 Leaving and waving, 5/2003 Leaving and waving, 5/2003 Leaving and waving, 12/2003 Leaving and waving, 12/2003 Leaving and waving, 3/2004 Leaving and waving, 3/2004 Leaving, 4/2004 Leaving, 4/2004 Leaving and waving, 8/2004 Leaving and waving, 8/2004 Leaving and waving, 12/2004 Leaving and waving, 12/2004 Leaving and waving, 3/2005 Leaving and waving, 3/2005 Leaving and waving, 6/2005 Leaving and waving, 6/2005 Leaving and waving, 12/2005 Leaving and waving, 12/2005 Leaving and waving, 3/2006 Leaving and waving, 3/2006 Leaving and waving, 6/2006 Leaving and waving, 6/2006 Leaving and waving, 8/2006 Leaving and waving, 8/2006 Leaving and waving, 12/2006 Leaving and waving, 12/2006 Leaving and waving, 3/2007 Leaving and waving, 3/2007 Leaving and waving, 6/2007 Leaving and waving, 6/2007 Leaving and waving, 8/2007 Leaving and waving, 8/2007 Leaving and waving, 12/2007 Leaving and waving, 12/2007 Leaving and waving, 3/2008 Leaving and waving, 3/2008 Leaving and waving, 5/2008 Leaving and waving, 5/2008 Leaving and waving, 8/2008 Leaving and waving, 8/2008 Leaving, 12/2008 Leaving, 12/2008 Leaving and waving, 3/2009 Leaving and waving, 3/2009 Leaving and waving, 5/2009 Leaving and waving, 5/2009 Leaving and waving, 7/2009 Leaving and waving, 7/2009 Leaving and waving, 8/2009 Leaving and waving, 8/2009 Leaving and waving, 9/2009 Leaving and waving, 9/2009 Leaving and waving, 12/2009 Leaving and waving, 12/2009 Leaving and waving, 6/2010 Leaving and waving, 6/2010 Leaving and waving, 8/2010 Leaving and waving, 8/2010 Leaving and waving, 12/2010 Leaving and waving, 12/2010 Leaving and waving, 6/2011 Leaving and waving, 6/2011 Leaving and waving, 8/2011 Leaving and waving, 8/2011 Leaving and waving, 12/2011 Leaving and waving, 12/2011 Leaving and waving, 3/2012 Leaving and waving, 3/2012 Leaving, 6/2012 Leaving, 6/2012 Leaving and waving, 8/2012 Leaving and waving, 8/2012 Leaving and waving, 12/2012 Leaving and waving, 12/2012 Leaving, 3/2013 Leaving, 3/2013 Leaving and waving, 6/2013 Leaving and waving, 6/2013 Leaving and waving, 8/2013 Leaving and waving, 8/2013 Leaving and waving, 10/2013 Leaving and waving, 10/2013 Leaving and waving, 12/2013 Leaving and waving, 12/2013 Leaving and waving, 3/2014 Leaving and waving, 3/2014 Leaving and waving,7/2014 Leaving and waving,7/2014 Leaving and waving, 8/2014 Leaving and waving, 8/2014 Leaving and waving, 11/2014 Leaving and waving, 11/2014 Leaving and waving, 12/2014 Leaving and waving, 12/2014 Leaving and waving, 6/2015 Leaving and waving, 6/2015 Leaving, 8/2015 Leaving, 8/2015 Leaving, 11/2015 Leaving, 11/2015 Leaving, 12/2015 Leaving, 12/2015 Leaving and waving, 4/2016 Leaving and waving, 4/2016 Leaving and waving, 5/2016 Leaving and waving, 5/2016 Leaving and waving, 8/2016 Leaving and waving, 8/2016 Leaving and waving, 11/2016 Leaving and waving, 11/2016 Leaving and waving, 12/2016 Leaving and waving, 12/2016 Leaving and waving, 3/2017 Leaving and waving, 3/2017 Leaving, 4/2017 Leaving, 4/2017 Leaving, 5/2017 Leaving, 5/2017 Leaving, 7/2017 Leaving, 7/2017 Leaving and waving, 8/2017 Leaving and waving, 8/2017 Leaving and waving, 10/2017 Leaving and waving, 10/2017 Leaving, 10/2017 Leaving, 10/2017 |Back to Top All images (c) Deanna Dikeman. 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