Based on the life and death of the artist’s father, The Last Words of Joseph consists of six portraits, completed in 2016. Each image was constructed from a photograph of Joseph Rodick, showing him from early childhood to death. Embedded in each image—except for the final image of the man thirty minutes after his death—are a few words of handwritten text. Dying and unable to speak, these words are written in Joseph’s shaking hand. A man’s last words.

I am not ready to go

Did I fall?

who can be trusted?

it’s all over

I wanted to see