Graphite on canson paper, 65 x 101 cm
Drawn from an old photograph of my great grandmother with her sisters in 1905, in Hayti, South Dakota. Lily Opdahl is the second from the left in the photo and was probably around 13 years old when this photo was taken.
As I was drawing it, I thought about inheritance, the inheritance of traits, traumas and behaviours that are passed down from one generation to the next. This made me think of sisterhood, motherhood, womanhood and the way in which as women, we are often guarded, reserved, restrained, cautious, even as we live in this modern world. Are these things we have learned or traits that we were born with. How have our ancestors behaviours, affected and influenced our DNA?
Graphite on Canson Paper, 56 x 76 cm
Drawn from a photograph of my mother’s from 1960s South Dakota, USA.
Shot in 1927, Orlin Trumm, Yasmin’s great-grandfather, poses for a photograph beside his car, parked near the family farmhouse in Erwin, South Dakota.
Pencil on Paper, 48 x 68 cm
1943, Hayti, South Dakota
A home in the middle of winter, in 1943, most likely in Hayti, South Dakota. Both the subject and the photographer are unknown.
Charcoal and Graphite on Acid Free Paper
35 x 61 cm