Frequent Aberrations

For the past three years I have been traveling around America making work based on Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places. Stephen Shore was one of my professors at Bard College, and due to him thinking I was lying about the death of my father I was kicked out of the Bard photo program. At the time I was making a body of work titled I'll Be Seeing You Soon about the passing of my father, hoping by doing so to navigate my emotions better. I did not succeed. Originally I undertook the re-shooting of Uncommon Places as a vengeance venture. When Stephen was in his early twenties both of his parents passed, and his reaction was to drive across the country and shoot. This work turned into Uncommon Places. As I started shooting this project, going from location to location it turned into me taking on another mans coping mechanisms, and in turn was adopted as my own coping mechanism for thoughts I have yet to quell solo. Currently the vengeance slant has completely vanished, and I am left with determination and a sweeping searching feeling. I am not sure if these feelings are rooted in my search for answers about my father, answers as to if this worked for him with his father and mother, or if the images I am making will hold up over time and how do they speak to the original images? Wherin do I allow myself room to make experiential photographic decisions as opposed to fact based and address based decisions?