Chasing Napalm
Fourth Chemical Unit, Officer Refresher Course (2008)
Archival pigment print, 5 panels each measuring 18"x120"
Under the Japanese Magnolia, Burning the test animals before dawn (2008)
Archival pigment prints, 5 panels each measuring 18"x120"
The Chemical Fields, Aberdeen Proving Ground (2008)
Slide projection/video loop for the exhibitionWe took the image and put the sound too loud curated by Fawz Kabra
Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Sstudies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2013)
The Chemical Fields, Aberdeen Proving Ground (2008)
Slide projection/video loop for the exhibition We took the image and put the sound too loud curated by Fawz Kabra,br>Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Sstudies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2013)
Chasing Napalm sets out to reconstruct my father's memory as a military officer who transported napalm and mustard gas via the Liberty Ships and convoys of World War II. As I stitch together his images with mine, a chronicle begins to unfold -- Notions of migration and transmigration, romanticized ideas of being the nomad; war, hatred, displacement, and confusion remain seductively melancholic and nostalgic. My fictions twist and distort his truths until I find an opening to construct a visual history, albeit a fabricated memory, of the past. Through a combination of photographs, slide and video projections, and private performances, I am mapping this journey that will culminate in the seafaring voyage similar to the one he had taken from Nova Scotia to England with the US convoys of 1943.
Night Fires ;; No. 0238 — Burning the test animals before dawn (2008)
Video/slide projections, Size variable
In Arlington (2008)
2-channel video projections