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On both sides of my family, the generations before, my parents were rural folks, making their living and raising their families on farms in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is this knowledge that drew me to the countryside just beyond the city limits where I live today to make new images and to attempt to make visceral contact with the past through photography. This project explores the visual and emotional connections that bind my family and the rural landscape by combining newly made images with family photos from the 1920s through the 1960s.