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        series "Memoir Americana" Memoir America explores our individual historical 
        narratives and our place within a collective historical narrative. Our 
        perception of the past is shaped by the language of our time, the landscape, 
        the rhetoric of messages and images which are distilled into a personal 
        history and an understanding of identity. I consider history as memory, 
        continually re-inscribing itself; as a time capsule discovered and read 
        again and again and understood only in terms of the present. (read 
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        Memoir Americana - Dog Days, 2009 
        oil on canvas, 32x52 inches 
        
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