Questions for a Dinosaur Family Photos is my most recent iteration of the Questions for a Dinosaur project. In the work’s original form, I asked a dinosaur 106 questions about extinction (including the question Is it ok to have a child? Is there hope in that?). Through interrogation, the Dinosaur and I worked to unravel the question, When I am fearful for the future, what am I fearful for, exactly?

Now with my own child, I have new questions about raising new life on an extinguishing planet. In collaboration with my husband Jordan Levie behind the camera, my son and I pose as Dinosaur Mother and child in familiar domestic scenes.

There is a different kind of present in these photos. As climate crisis upends our sense of time, we can no longer count on the linear progression of past, present and future, and instead are being catapulted backwards into an uneven future. Questions for a Dinosaur Family Photos collapses this new sense of time. The Dinosaur Mother and human child exist together within the microscale of the home, where mothering attends to intimacy across minutes, hours, days.