Holding Time is a visual conversation between Panebianco and her dad. Every Christmas her father would pull out the same box of slides he has made in his late teens and early 20s and project them on the living room wall – making the family view them and hear the same stories over and over. By placing the slides in her current landscape, she creates not only a connection between his life and hers, but also a trail of memories, each with its own association for both of them.
These little vignettes of family life in her current “space” provide the comfort of family and create a “home” for her, wherever she goes. Finding the right location and uniting her father’s slides with how she lives today is an important piece of her process of creating a place within a place, a memory within a memory.

“Holding Time is a love story about family. Weddings, road trips, babies, vacations, game nights – these everyday snapshots provide a roadmap to a life. By using my dad’s Kodak slides taken in the 1950s and 60s and physically holding them in my home and around Jamestown, I literally melded my past with my present.
Combining my photographs with the lovely story by writer, Irene Alison, Holding Time gives a nostalgic nod to my family’s past but creates a place where everyone can celebrate their own family memories and how those memories might affect their present day. This might be my family’s story, but it’s really every family’s story.”