Chickamauga III, 40" x 50"
oil on canvas, 2008
Daguerreopaintings
The gothic novel is a literary genre usually associated with the late eighteenth century in England and is firmly grounded in an historical past. The stories of darkness and mystery may not be grounded ina specific time in American history, but they seem to be born from a specific landscape.
Historical daguerreotypes, tintypes, and autochromes I believe may participate in a ?gothic? process. The surfaces and subjects of an old photograph invite me into a tension,– looking into an image from
the past, it also asks me to consider my relationship to its place or history. I am reminded of its duo nature by the views of dimensional space meeting up with the tincture and marks of a scratched surface.
Chickamauga
On September 19-20, 1863 the battle of Chickamauga takes a combined toll of 31,500 casualties in what is the bloodiest two day battle of the CivilWar. In northern Georgia, the Cherokee refer to Chickamauga as the “River of Death”. The Union defeat leads to a withdraw to Chattanooga.
oil on canvas, 2008
Daguerreopaintings
The gothic novel is a literary genre usually associated with the late eighteenth century in England and is firmly grounded in an historical past. The stories of darkness and mystery may not be grounded ina specific time in American history, but they seem to be born from a specific landscape.
Historical daguerreotypes, tintypes, and autochromes I believe may participate in a ?gothic? process. The surfaces and subjects of an old photograph invite me into a tension,– looking into an image from
the past, it also asks me to consider my relationship to its place or history. I am reminded of its duo nature by the views of dimensional space meeting up with the tincture and marks of a scratched surface.
Chickamauga
On September 19-20, 1863 the battle of Chickamauga takes a combined toll of 31,500 casualties in what is the bloodiest two day battle of the CivilWar. In northern Georgia, the Cherokee refer to Chickamauga as the “River of Death”. The Union defeat leads to a withdraw to Chattanooga.
The Lincoln Project
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
and Museum, Springfield, Illinois
February 8 - May 17, 2009
A Search for Heroes, Lincoln and the Illinois Landscape
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
March 14 - April 25, 2003
