Trust Me

In His Estate, Lee Mary Manning rephotographed two pictures made decades earlier by their father, Mike, shortly after his death from Covid-19 in 2020. During Manning’s childhood, Mike would regularly pull his car over to photograph flowers he had spotted from the road, leading to many interrupted journeys and exasperated passengers. The artist now recalls these times with great fondness and used their father’s old camera—inherited from him—to make this photograph. His Estate insists on the importance of the everyday: people, objects, and moments made extraordinary through the artist’s careful attention to them. Works like Milling Around the Village (on view nearby) similarly describe webs of friendship and creative community. In the thoughtful configuration of 35mm prints, Manning draws out poetic and formal relationships between seemingly unrelated images, inviting the viewer’s own associations.