The 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 more)
   
         
 
 


 

Memoir Americana - Rise & Fall, 2009
oil on canvas, 36x58 inches


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