Dimensions : 16 x 20 x 3 inches
Medium : silver gelatin print encased in paraffin wax, wax coated linen flag, aluminum, wood
Made : 1998 (approx)
About
This is an early piece in a personal series motivated by a very prolonged journey through the US immigration system. With the wax coated flag fragments and wax coated background quote, I try to convey the feeling of insincerity and contradiction I was feeling between treatment during the immigration process and the underlying core American value of equality. The background is an Abraham Lincoln quote photographed near the Lincoln memorial in Washington, DC , regarding equality:
“Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior… Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.”
Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858
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