In her lecture, Angela Bacon-Kidwell will discuss the ways she has navigated her life through visual expression.  Her work emerges from her journey of recovering a sense of self, strength and spirituality through an examination of her identities as daughter, granddaughter, wife, mother and artist.  She will present work from the acclaimed series Traveling Dream, which features surreal, dreamlike imagery rich in metaphor, as well as from Traces of Existence. This most recent series explores the complex relationship between the fragility of life and the finality of death.  Angela will share some of the answers she has received to the “big” questions surrounding her life while employing photography as a means of artistic and personal growth.