As a collage artist, I frequently work with found family photographs. I don’t know the people in any of these photographs. I (usually) don’t know where or when they were taken. Divorced from details, these subjects are free to stand in for every/any family. “Family Ties” makes visible the deep human connections that are the roots of these photographs. Pictures don’t last. People don’t last. But, just like mycelium, the connections we make with each other and our planet nourish present and future generations.