“A piece of music my husband wrote when my mother was dying and an archive of footage my father shot when she was younger, inspired me to play my mother’s life in reverse. I wanted to replay a past I had missed and had not been a part of. By superimposing iconographic elements such as water, flowers, and candles I tried to reach a more universal and metaphorical feeling of loss in this moving alter for my mother.”-Virginia Valdes PBS/Thirteen Reel NY 8