{"id":4449,"date":"2025-05-31T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/?page_id=4449"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:03:25","slug":"snapshots-an-unfaithful-look-back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/?page_id=4449","title":{"rendered":"SNAPSHOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

These paintings are based on family photographs, many taken in Williamstown, NJ during the 1950s. The narrative, once I get to it, will be loving, deeply unpleasant, denied, and dismissed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Baba, my Polish great-grandmother.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Baba, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

My grandparents’ wedding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nana’s wedding, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Dolly and Virginia, sisters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sisters, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Nana’s second husband standing behind a rosebush, God knows why.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grandpop, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

My mom when she still had her swagger.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Virginia, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Aunt Dolly as a young woman, already lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dolly, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Mom with Chuck.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Williamstown, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Nana and me, her captive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nana and me, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Me again, in overalls and a babushka, with a chicken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Red scarf, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

And with my brother and some background drama.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Williamstown, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

We were always Mickie and Chuck, but he got to be in charge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mickie and Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chuck in his hippie period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chuck, hippie period, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Me at that age.\u00a0 (Temporarily removed)<\/span><\/p>\n

My mom the plant lady at the Philadelphia Flower Show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flower show, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Dolly in her sophisticated blond era.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Birthday cake, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Nana with Mr. D.<\/span>, her late-life companion, an utterly good man.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nana and Mr. D., 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Here she is in her Pennsylvania backyard. She always kept a big dog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nana and Shep, 18″ by 14″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Me at the Gulf of Mexico a few years before Katrina, a year before I started law school.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Red suede jacket, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Chuck, nature photographer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2025 – 2026 Mike Miller, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These paintings are based on family photographs, many taken in Williamstown, NJ during the 1950s. The narrative, once I get to it, will be loving, deeply unpleasant, denied, and dismissed.\u00a0\u00a0 Baba, my Polish great-grandmother. My grandparents’ wedding.\u00a0 Dolly and Virginia, sisters.\u00a0 Nana’s second husband standing behind a rosebush, God knows why. My mom when she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":282,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4449\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}