Throughout history, portraits have documented our legacy, creating a gallery of faces, a representation of ourselvesthat connects who we are today with who we were in years past. This legacy-- the tie that binds, as we say--allows us to construct and remember an image of the past that becomes, in all its forms, visual history. On one level, this implies an ancestral shrine, history entombed, or a simple catalogue of memories: the family album.Each face stands for a life lived, for who we were at any given moment. However, history and memory are fluid concepts. Like the reflection of headlights on a stormy highway, they are always changing, never still. There is poetry in this dance of light. Therefore, we can glean many layers of information from the faces of our times. Behind these masks -- we don them to cloak the psychological mysteries that delineate history--there are unseen clues to who we were, who we are, and who we will become.