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.

This ongoing project aims to question notions of tradition through juxtaposition, disjunction, and decontextualized symbolic representation. The work co-opts the traditional bucolic toile to illuminate a biased and non-inclusive mid-century America.