Twilight Gleaming is a mesmerizing and provocative series of photographic images that reflects on the graphic beauty and powerful symbolism of the American flag. Long a beacon of unity and democracy, the flag’s symbolism is shifting. In these images, the flag mutates and twists, morphing into a dance of patterns before dissolving into abstraction. This series aims to explore this disintegration and remind us that the American flag stands for a nation united.
Twilight Gleaming, 1
Indivisible is a traveling installation of images from Twilight Gleaming that will engage with different communities across the country. Viewers will be invited to share what they feel when seeing these distorted images of the flag. The intent of the project is to give voice to a wide range of people at a time when our reading of the American flag is in flux and the very concept of democracy — on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the United States, when we are so fundamentally divided — is fragile.
Viewer responses (verbal or written) will be compiled anonymously into a publication that will give insight into how this powerful symbol continues to hold sway over the American psyche.
The installation will consist of twelve large prints.