MY DEAD DAD

For this collection, Lineback has been working with her father's photographs and voicemails as a way to recall old memories and spark new ones. As a child, she saw his photos scattered around the house as just another one of his interests—something separate from her own creative inclinations at the time. Now, with her father gone and her artistic practice having shifted from painting to photography, Lineback seeks to recreate what he once saw through his devices and lenses, driven by a desire to encapsulate who he was and how he viewed the world he captured.

She incorporates a ViewMaster toy as a viewing device, requiring the viewer to physically engage with the work. The positioning of each image within the reel adds another layer of meaning—echoing the way memories blend, jumble, compress, and merge with new thoughts. By photographing through the ViewMaster’s viewfinder and printing those resulting images, Lineback introduces yet another level of distance between the subject and the viewer, speaking to the elusive, unscientific, and slippery nature of memory—something that resists containment yet remains deeply personal and universally cherished.