For the past two decades, Maureen Cummins has been making artist’s books, prints, and installations that investigate the nature and experience of disasters. In 1999, haunted by the 1982 death-by-suicide of her mother, Cummins turned to art as a way to provide context for, and understanding of, the disaster within her own family. The response from viewers was so powerful that what she considered to be a brief artistic tangent turned into her life’s work.