What started as a sanity saver for me over the pandemic quarantine has evolved into a fine art narrative project. Connecting and collaborating with property owners and past residents of abandoned farmsteads in the midwest (beginning in Minnesota and expanding outward as the project progresses) to collect their stories of the house, farm, land, and growing up in the community. Those stories and any past photos/mementos the families wish to share will be combined with images of the properties as they currently stand and exhibited in outstate art centers. The aim of the project is to create an in-depth portrait of these farmsteads in an effort to preserve the history of this culture and showcase its raw beauty. The culture and stories of family farm life as it once was is rapidly disappearing. There is an urgency here, in just the past year, several of the locations shown on this site have been demolished or burned down. We are losing these houses, we are losing the people who grew up in them and we are losing the stories.   

 

If you feel called to support this project financially, feel free to email me at ddff.nisafiin@gmail.com or venmo me @starfiin (fundrasing links to follow)  

 

If you,  a friend or family member have a property and would like to collaborate on this project, also, please email- ddff.nisafiin@gmail.com