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COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
My Father’s Hands, from the series Simple Truths, 2009 (gelatin silver photograph, 28x36) by Linda Foard Roberts
though late one summer I saw him sitting on an old railroad tie at the end of the driveway – squinting into sun, legs like sticks in tattered Bermuda shorts, purple veins spidering into frayed socks and a pair of wingtips too worn for anything but puttering. Ninety years old. Retired at last, not long before the stroke that cut him down: eight months in bed, lucid until the end, chained to not-doing and the anguish of knowing it.
Weddington, NC, native LINDA FOARD ROBERTS lives in Charlotte, NC. She received a BFA from Intermont College and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her work has been exhibited internationally and throughout the US. Her first monograph, Passage (Radius Books, 2016), debuted at Paris Photo. In 2020, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship Grant in support of her series Lament, a song of sorrow for those not heard, which was exhibited at Annenberg Space for Photography and Mint Museum of Art. Her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections, as well as in the permanent collections of Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Davidson College, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Ogden Museum of Art. She is represented by SOCO Gallery in Charlotte and Sol del Rio Gallery in Guatemala City. See more of her work in NCLR 2011, 2014, and 2017.
