In the face of

1. Does "the tree was a distance from her marker" mean "the tree had moved farther from her marker"?

2. Does "temporal displacement" mean "movement ( travel ) in time"?

3. Does "in the face of" mean "through" here?

4. Does "their history" mean "the memory of a parent"?

Context:

Magdalena, 1992, is comprised of six polaroids and two engraved plastic plaques. The pairs of images on the left-hand side and on the right-hand side both display a white shoe box, the plaque under the left-hand pair reading ‘at her burial I stood under the tree next to her grave’. The middle pair of photographs display a pair of women’s shoes, in one image facing forwards, in the other turned away from the viewer, while the plaque under the right-hand pair of white shoe boxes reads ‘when I returned the tree was a distance from her marker’. What is imaged here is not only the temporal displacement of memory in relation to the seeming stasis of photographic representation, but the absent body that can only be invoked in the face of its disappearance in death. Magdalena represents both a particular narrative, the loss of a parent and their history, and a universal narrative, the gaps in knowledge generated by the encounter with mortality.