The Icon Series, 2006-07
Digital C-Type Prints, each 75 x 105 (cm)
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“Icon Series” is a 2-year photographic exploration that looks to trace a memory of the present and its role in the making of collective perception, and there-from, collective identity. ‘Jerusalem’ is an important and ubiquitous centerpiece in the series. God, the Nation, and the King also reign supreme along with green paradises, peacocks, and horses. The end result is pictorial vocabulary that is unmistakably ordinary or mundane making a memorial of some kind of present and not past. Ultimately, each frame becomes a period piece perhaps mocking its time.
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