American Toile
Loosely referencing Philip Roth’s classic novel depicting an identity narrative as severely misbehaving reality, American Pastoral is a collection of surface conditions applied to borrowed forms and materials.
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This ongoing project aims to question notions of tradition through juxtaposition, disjunction, and decontextualized symbolic representation as afforded by technology. The central pattern in the series co-opts the traditional bucolic toile to cast doubt on a biased and non-inclusive depiction of mid-century American ideals (whiteness, entertainment escapism, war technology, and the like).
