The central element of Magic Hour is a three-channel video that presents video portraits of Californians discussing their experience of family, with a focus on queer experience and queer family-making. Participants include Dean Spade, Julie Tolentino, taisha paggett, Calvin B., Rachel Carns, Samuel White, Don Romesburg and Asha Romesburg. Magic Hour explores, in the words of the artist “love, intimacy, loss, and queer family-making through the image and connotations of the horizon line. Drawing distinction between that which is distant and within reach, the horizon line serves as an orientational tool that locates one at home. It determines space by assuming a linear perspective and a single, stable spectator, defining notions of time, place, and the subject. Extending a line from the metaphor of the horizon to the idea (and ideal) of family, Epitaph for Family explores the way in which family serves as a locator, as the primary introduction to community, and an orienting device that shapes one’s relationship to gender, race, class, and intimacy.” The central three channels are flanked by two projections that show the horizon line at dawn and dusk.