I have been photographing my family for ten years. In the past few years, many of the elders in my family have passed. One is my grandfather Daddy Van, the patriarch and rural Southern preacher, survived by my grandmother Mama Glo. Since his passing, Mama Glo is spending much time going through photographs, listening to cassettes of Daddy Van’s sermons, and remembering and longing for their life together. As a photographer who has made my family subject, my relationship to the material and the way I photograph is changing as my elders, and primary subjects pass. At this point of departure, I now visually mirror Mama Glo’s experience, photographing as she remembers, digs out photographs, and listens to sermons. I am documenting these totem objects, residuals of our family history, as Mama Glo recounts, participates, and looks on.