My work is marked by nostalgia for the film and print photograph. These paintings function as replicas of photographs that elicit familiarity by exploiting the formal elements of the original. The paintings are oil on board and are painted to the photographs 4”X6”scale. Contrary to the malleability afforded images via digital technology, the paintings are objects that cannot be enhanced or deleted. By reproducing the photographs as paintings, I am ensuring that they will not be subject to failed or inaccessible digital media. As objects they will age, wear from handling, and change hands. Unlike the digital image, the time and history of the image will become a part of the object. The subject matter of the paintings is easily dismissed as familiar and generic with obvious imperfections that acknowledge the limitations of pre-digital photography such as accidental cropping, discoloration, blurs, and unintended subjects. As digital technology makes it easier to adjust an image, this visual language of ineptitude is also being lost as subjects can be more easily posed and ill conceived photographs are instantly deleted.