Geoff Johnson and Jennifer McShea both grew up with a mother who compulsively hoarded trash . Refrigerator did n't forget , trash ##ed up , but nothing was fixed . It left them with deep - rooted feelings of shame . two decades after they left , their mother died and the house was sold to them . They have revisited and created a photo series , superimposing their children onto photos of the house to show the uneasy sight of youngsters growing up in that environment .
Geoff Johnson and Jennifer McShea both grew up with a mother who compulsively hoarded things . Refrigerator did n't work , trash piled up , but nothing was fixed . It left them with deep-rooted feelings of shame . Two decades after they left , their mother died and the house was passed to them . They have revisited and created a photo series , superimposing their children onto photos of the house to show the uneasy sight of youngsters growing up in that environment .