I created four paintings for the “listenings” exhibition at the Block Gallery in Raleigh (February 3-March 28, 2011). This was a group show embracing the intertwining relationship of sound and sight. My paintings explore how the written and spoken word used in combination with song create national identity and patriotic spirit.
We may all be Americans, but how does our historical and contextual engagement with patriotic song and nationalist poetry reflect our cultural diversity and individual sense of identity? When does information become culturally meaningful rather than illegible and incomprehensible data? Can specificity of communicative form reliably represent the ideals of a nation of people with legible and meaningful content?
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