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Gallery: Wish You Were Here
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Wish You Were Here, a long scroll of transferred landscapes, winds from spool to spool and must be hand-cranked. Rather than telling a narrative story, as in traditional crankie boxes of the mid-1800’s, my scroll is a panorama of ghosted postcard memories collected from around the world by my grandfather during his time as a Merchant Marine in World War II. As I transferred the images, I forced a continuous horizon line by revealing only parts of the original image, allowing portions to remain obscured or semi-obscured with the paper backing. In doing so, I am not only linking distance places, but forming connections between past and present, and forging a path from my ancestors to my children. Medium: wood, canvas, image transfers, graphite, ink. Dimensions: 8 x 12 x 24 inches