Throwback Thursday! In the fall of 2004, we opened Margaret Honda: Transfer Pictures, the first New York City solo museum exhibition for the American artist and filmmaker. The show focused on a series of site-specific drawings that connect the natural sciences and the visual arts to the workings of memory and loss. Through her work, Honda was able to mourn her personal losses: the passing of her mother; her dog; her first childhood home; and at the time, the anticipated loss of her father. In the four components that comprise Transfer Pictures -Building, Picture, Exchange, and Transfer- Honda’s practice not only reflects a blurring of the distinction between mourning and melancholia, but a reinterpretation of loss by choosing to face it again. She worked from old photographs depicting the elements she had lost and, with pencil and brush in hand, transcribed those moments by filling in the absences. Honda made the images of her family, her dog, and her home as image-objects in their o...