Susan Sontag said “to photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” What do our school portraits testify to when youth is behind us? What’s become of the kids in your class? How many didn’t outlive their parents? Each generation has to answer the same questions of the one before it, but under a new set of cultural rules and social realities. In this work, Ericsson has blown up his mother and her classmates covering the potential of baby boomers in one of their ashes. Everything ends in a photograph.