folkrec

Reflection: I wanted to create a wall that said something on behalf of the American people who exist now only as legend. Whether we look to the gilded age or the American West or the counter-culture movement or the industrial revolution as a period that represents the essential American identity, what we find are these distinctively American characters and lifestyles. It's these iconic representations of what it is (or was) to be an American that fascinate me, and though that America is gone it's far from irrelevant or obsolete. It's easy for me to recognize, even in city life, the debris of our time as an agrarian nation or the legacy of American folk culture, and I still feel very deeply defined by these, the original inventors of American freedom.