When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time.
The old couple lies belly up on a white duvet, linked at the hands like a pair of chained paper dolls. Their slack faces have the look of Greek masks: slits for shut eyes and black sockets for nostrils, mouths turned down like sickle moons. Is this eternal rest or an afternoon nap that just resembles it? The portrait appears midway through “Till Death Do Us Part,” a tender, visceral series of Bob and Mary Behrens, octogenarians from Texas in the sixty-seventh year of their marriage.
In one portrait, Bob and Mary sit side by side on wooden rockers, their backs to the camera as they admire the secluded view of a lake. Their walkers are set behind and beside them. Like all of the shots in “Till Death Do Us Part,” this one takes its title from the couple’s own words: “Should I tell Daddy that we’re dying?”Wilkes, a stay-at-home mother who studied chemical engineering in college, didn’t pick up photography until her own children were grown and out of the house.
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