Zebra Bible, Limited Edition 7 of 30 *Portfolio Print * Photograph

THE GOOD BOOKS These Bibles have been pulled from their final resting places of mud-caked pews and condemned church floors, from both the Central City and Lower Ninth Ward areas of New Orleans. Relics of former communities of faith and fellowship, these serviceable books bound neighbor to neighbor in the course of thanksgiving and worship. Today these communities are still dissipated, their absence still marked by memories of the ubiquitous waterline. The South bares its contradictions perhaps better than most regions. As the flood waters slowly receded from the devastated areas of the Gulf Coast, what was revealed (once again) were the wounds of class and economic elitism that transcend just skin color and tightly screw the bolts of one’s existence to a rigid framework of invisibility. How does one reconcile the obsessive need to make images in the midst or aftermath of tragedy? What underscores the ethics of imposing a set of visual dynamics on chaos? Perhaps it is the derelict Catholic in me that is drawn to the disturbing beauty that results from the accidental juxtaposition of scripture and moldy disintegration. Ever operative, the fear of aesethicizing calamity continues to whisper in my ear. The elements of water, earth and air have irrevocably altered these books. The paradigm of social neglect has obviated the congregations who valued them. For me, they are both beautiful in their decay and incendiary in their implication. Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:30

Size:16 W x 11.5 H x 0.1 D in

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