Son Pictures is an in-progress interdisciplinary project. As a contemporary pictorial elegy contextualized within a decades deep family archive, Son Pictures collates made and found photographs, works on paper by the artist’s mother, and related ephemera. 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. Partly inspired by the mix tapes of Bailey’s upbringing, this body of work spans generations and traverses genres, styles, and sources to evoke a complicated yet vital family record.

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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