101 Poorly Printed Photographs and Two Maps

2014

101 Poorly Printed Photographs and Two Maps, I draw on my European and First Nation heritage to foreground the history of misrepresentation, cultural appropriation, and erasure. The project is a three-part installation consisting of a historical timeline, a landscape film documenting traces of the US Border Patrol, and re-photographed Timothy O'Sullivan images. The project traces my biographical history onto Skeleton Canyon, New Mexico, the site of Geronimo’s capture. The exhibition catalog functions as an extension of the work and uses narratives of the Manhattan Project, childhood memories of half-forgotten films, the invention of balloon framing on the Southside of Chicago, and listless eBay searches to tie a personal narrative through geological and historical moments of erasure and re-presentation into the imaged history of the American landscape.