The family of the Chinese neighborhood is depicted for 22 years
Once the family settled in a new nature, Holton resumed photography. Darker tones of these prints: shades replace bright colors, and family members are clearly tense. Every person often appears alone or separate from others through the curtain, entrance or darkness. Over time, the project is transmitted from the Ludlow apartment: children go to college; Stephen finds his own place, first in New Jersey, then Bronx; Shirley grows closer to her patients, who also become a family.
The project was neither the toll nor the touching against the fluctuations of the real world: when the epidemic was struck in 2020, months before Holton had been able to join the family of pictures. On this point, the grandmother and Bou died, and Shirley was back at home. Despite the familiar kakovon of the horns and upper clothes, the apartment becomes almost unknown. Screens and computers appear, as well as furniture pieces arranged to create a feeling of privacy among adult children. The city was, too, changing: the building was subject to the renovations and most Chinese families that lived there were replaced by two tenants. In 2021, she fought Shirley to stick to the apartment of the grandmother and Bo (she received a blessing of her inheritance), and took her as much as the Housing Court. In one of the prints that were arrested, she was standing on the stairs on Henry Street Street, in a group of red, white, blue, stars and lines, carrying a Chinese icon for luck. Sherley lost in the Housing Court, and in another print, we see her again in the Lodlo Championship, smiling sadly on her phone while listening to voice messages reserved from Po.