Fathering is a vision board and/or a cry for help for new dads in particular, young artists in general, and adult children at large. 

Photographs, film stills, and paintings drift alongside an anxious diary essay on influence and parentage.

How can I become a good dad if I don't know what one looks like?

In movies and stories, the fathers are always villains or bystanders.

Is William Eggleston or Darth Vader better with kids?

Worse still, could a good artist ever be a good dad?

All my favorite directors seem like guys who don’t know how to change a diaper.

Can you make art from the self while being a selfless parent?

Would you rather be raised by Royal Tenenbaum or Hayao Miyazaki?

Fathering reckons with patriarchs real and imagined. 

It's a record of the big questions from that first year, and the places I went looking for answers.

Could there be another way?

Fathering

Ward Long

28 pages, digitally printed w/ inkjet cover

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