Son Pictures is an in-progress interdisciplinary project. As a pictorial elegy contextualized within a decades deep family archive, Son Pictures combines made and found photographs, film stills, newspaper reportage, and premonitory drawings and paintings made by the artist’s mother when she was a child. Initially seeking to memorialize and somehow reconcile with the tragic death of his mother in the crash landing of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989, Bailey’s intent for this work shifted greatly when thirty years later, in 2019, he himself became a father.

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The New York Times: What a Motherless Son Knows About Fatherhood
Film Photo Award: Interview with Linda Moses 
Sioux City Journal: Journey of Discovery