Homeland Scrolls
Photograph
2005 (photographed)
2005 (photographed)
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This is a digitally collaged image, produced as an inkjet carbon print. It is from the series 'Homeland Scrolls' in which Sandra Matthews uses a combination of text and image, stitched together digitally, to investigate notions of 'homeland' that have gained currency in America in recent years. The images are arranged in layers, or 'visual strata' to imply an archaeology, with a word embedded in each layer to suggest human actions that may have happened at the pictured site. As she has written, in this work Matthews is 'trying to reclaim a sense of the multiple histories, many of them painful, most of them buried or forgotten, that belong to any landscape available to human view.'
Object details
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| Title | Homeland Scrolls (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Inkjet carbon print |
| Brief description | Black and white digitally-collaged ink jet print of island, sea and reflections, from 'Homeland Scrolls' series by Sandra Matthews, USA, 2005 |
| Physical description | Black and white digitally-collaged ink jet print showing an island, a sea and reflections in water, with the words 'submerged', 'surfaced' and 'remembered' overlayed on the images. |
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| Credit line | Given by the photographer |
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| Summary | This is a digitally collaged image, produced as an inkjet carbon print. It is from the series 'Homeland Scrolls' in which Sandra Matthews uses a combination of text and image, stitched together digitally, to investigate notions of 'homeland' that have gained currency in America in recent years. The images are arranged in layers, or 'visual strata' to imply an archaeology, with a word embedded in each layer to suggest human actions that may have happened at the pictured site. As she has written, in this work Matthews is 'trying to reclaim a sense of the multiple histories, many of them painful, most of them buried or forgotten, that belong to any landscape available to human view.' |
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| Accession number | E.32-2007 |
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| Record created | April 24, 2008 |
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