afterlife conversation, 2019

My grandfather Gui Marcel Ignon was born in France in 1897. He fought for the French in World War I, spent time as a German POW, and became a post-Surrealist painter and art teacher in Ojai, California. He died when my father was 16, but I have often imagined what it would be like to talk to him. I made this video with a conversation with him in mind, in an abstract future afterlife space wherein I could ask him questions I’ve long pondered about his life, his work, and intergenerational legacies.