Growing up not knowing my father caused me to idealize families where the father had been present, only to find that when I talked to people about their fathers they openly admitted that their dads weren’t perfect. In response to this I created a fictional company dedicated to making lives complete one dad at a time.  

Construct-a-Father is a performance that operates in a slightly business like fashion. The information given to me is recorded on a form filled out be each applicant. I use this information to seek out and appropriate images from the Internet in order to gather and digitally composite them together into am image that someone might consider their “ideal father figure.” After each father figure is completed I email the final image to the subject and produce a trading card to be shown and perhaps traded as one person’s ideal of ideal may be better suited for another.